Snowden Leaks Give New Life to Lawsuits Challenging N.S.A. Surveillance Programs

Cracks are appearing in a legal wall that since 9/11 has shielded the U.S. government's claim of constitutional authority from open-court review, as five lawsuits filed since the Snowden affair allege violations by the NSA surveillance program.

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America's Legacy of Racism and the Death of Trayvon Martin

Decades of white retrenchment led up to the moment that a bullet pierced Trayvon Martin’s heart -- and no matter what the prosecution, the defense, the jury or the defenders of George Zimmerman may think, racism was pivotal in his killing.

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California Prison Hunger Strike Is A Call for Justice

On July 8, nearly 30,000 prisoners across the state began a third hunger strike, which may end up being the largest and longest in California's history.

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Justice Denied: Is Trayvon Martin Post-Racial America's Emmett Till?

Today, we all know that Emmett Till’s 1955 murder and the denial of justice to him and his family was the product of racism. As Trayvon Martin’s killing illustrates, colorblindness hasn’t brought us closer to a place where color no longer matters.

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Hedges: Locking Out the Voices of Dissent

The goal of the corporate state is to criminalize democratic, popular dissent before there is another popular eruption.

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Zimmerman's Acquittal and the Call for a New Civil Rights Movement

We must mobilize and organize to assert popular power independent of the courts and corporate political parties if we are to create a world where Trayvon, and the millions he has come to represent, can thrive without fear.

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What Edward Snowden Taught Us About American Freedom

Americans fully recognize the threat the U.S. security state poses to American liberty, with a poll last week showing 55% consider Edward Snowden a whistleblower, not a traitor. But who, now, will protect this hero?

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Denouncing NSA Surveillance Isn’t Enough — We Need the Power to Stop It

At the core of the surveillance state is the hollowness of its democratic pretenses. Only with authentic democracy can we save ourselves from devastating evisceration of the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments.

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The Insider Threat Program: Obama's Crackdown on Leaks That "Aid the Enemy"

Even before Edward Snowden exposed the secret collection of Americans’ phone records, the Obama administration was pressing a new and unprecedented government-wide crackdown on security threats.

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License Plate Readers Let Police Collect Millions of Records on Drivers

License plate readers installed on the outside of police cars can log thousands of license plates in a single patrol shift.

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