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Matthew Harwood

Matthew Harwood is the ACLU’s senior writer/editor.

Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator Genisys" (Paramount Pictures)

Robots will rule us all: The future of American policing is the stuff of dystopian science fiction

Matthew Harwood, Jay Stanley
(Reuters/Mike Blake)

There is no war on police: Ferguson, Chris Christie and the realities the right willfully ignores

Matthew Harwood
Charles Krauthammer (CBS News)

Terrorism’s new boogeyman: Charles Krauthammer and the toxic myth of the “lone wolf”

Matthew Harwood

America’s dystopian new normal: Endless suspicion, limitless spying

Matthew Harwood, Hina Shamsi
(Reuters/Philip Andrews)

One nation under SWAT: How America’s police became an occupying force

Matthew Harwood
(AP/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

Big Brother is coming: Google, mass surveillance, and the rise of the “Internet of Things”

Catherine Crump, Matthew Harwood
(Reuters/Jason Reed)

Destroying the right to be alone

Matthew Harwood, Christopher Calabrese
(Reuters/Brian Blanco)

US law enforcement blatantly ignores right-wing extremists

Matthew Harwood
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Obama’s Gitmo betrayal

Matthew Harwood
Pope Benedict XVI, Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand (AP/Salon)

Ayn Rand vs. the pope

Matthew Harwood
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Erasing cruise ship crime

Matthew Harwood
Francis Grady (Outagamie County Sheriff's Dept.)

Is this man a terrorist?

Matthew Harwood
Thomas Drake (Tony Powell)

NSA whistle-blower: Obama “worse than Bush”

Matthew Harwood