surveillance state

America’s split personality: Paranoid superstate and land of equality

From "The Heat" to "White House Down," from Snowden to gay rights, America plays both hero and villain

Andrew O'Hehir Saturday, Jun 29, 2013 5:00 PM UTC
Entertainment Politics, U.S. Politics

The NSA’s early years: Exposed!

A newly declassified work of history shows how U.S. intelligence agencies helped launch the digital age

Andrew Leonard Friday, Jun 28, 2013 11:44 AM UTC 12
Technology NSA, surveillance state

Now the government’s cracking down on privacy tools!

New leaked documents reveal that the mere use of encryption is a red flag for intelligence agencies

Andrew Leonard Friday, Jun 21, 2013 4:38 PM UTC 45
Technology NSA, surveillance state

Turnkey totalitarianism

When libertarians get it right: A Cato fellow explains the true danger of surveillance gone amok

Andrew Leonard Monday, Jun 17, 2013 4:12 PM UTC
Technology Surveillance

From Ike to “The Matrix”: Welcome to the American dystopia

Part Orwellian security state, part Huxley wonderland and part "Matrix," America is three dystopias in one!

Andrew O'Hehir Sunday, Jun 16, 2013 10:30 AM UTC 114
Entertainment Movies, Politics, Surveillance

Netflix, Facebook — and the NSA: They’re all in it together

NSA, Netflix, Facebook and other e-commerce goliaths are collaborating on tools that track us in very intimate ways

Andrew Leonard Friday, Jun 14, 2013 11:28 AM UTC 26
Technology NSA, gift economy

FBI’s shameless 9/11 claims

FBI Director Robert Mueller invokes the terror attack to defend NSA's snooping -- but history doesn't support him

Alex Seitz-Wald Thursday, Jun 13, 2013 9:05 PM UTC 12
Politics National security

Is Alex Gibney’s WikiLeaks film “state agitprop”?

Respected left-wing journalist Chris Hedges joins the backlash against "We Steal Secrets." What's really going on?

Andrew O'Hehir Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 11:30 PM UTC 102
Entertainment Movies, Documentaries

“When Americans understand, they become outraged”

The StopWatching.Us campaign aims to turn grass-roots anger at secret surveillance into political action

Andrew Leonard Tuesday, Jun 11, 2013 6:51 PM UTC 37
Technology NSA, Edward Snowden, Privacy

Greenwald’s long battle against the surveillance state

While at Salon, the former litigator wrote regularly of the danger of ever-expanding dragnets VIDEO

Natasha Lennard Monday, Jun 10, 2013 5:26 PM UTC 39
Technology Video, Glenn Greenwald

Obama’s “Dirty Wars” — and a soiled presidency

Reporter Jeremy Scahill's riveting film helps explain how the "transformational presidency" turned to nightmare

Andrew O'Hehir Sunday, Jun 9, 2013 8:00 PM UTC 130
Entertainment Movies, Documentaries, Politics

Obama’s unparalleled spy state

Another blockbuster: New revelations expose the NSA and FBI's vast online surveillance powers

Andrew Leonard Friday, Jun 7, 2013 12:05 AM UTC 125
Technology Surveillance

FBI under scrutiny over handling of Boston suspect

The agency has been accused of "dropping the ball" with the elder Tsarnaev brother, now dead

Natasha Lennard Monday, Apr 22, 2013 1:21 PM UTC
News Boston Marathon bombing

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