Obama’s made a lot of Faustian bargains over the last seven years. But given his likely successors, what we got over the last two terms may be as good as it gets.
Obama: The Fairy-Tale President?
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NSA surveillance
Reclaiming Privacy in the Golden Age of Surveillance
We can’t let the goal of ending mass surveillance fall off the international human rights agenda.
Participatory Totalitarianism
We are not passive objects of the surveillance state. We are active subjects of our own YouTube channels.
The Last Commencement Address
The Class of 2014 enters a shadowy world of corporate and state surveillance.
The Five Commandments of Barack Obama
How well has Barack Obama lived up to his own standards on civil liberties?
Privacy in the Age of Surveillance
A strong global right to electronic privacy demands recognition, in U.S. law and internationally.
The Surveillance Blitz
Our privacy is getting hit from two sides — from corporations as well as the government.
SOTU: Obama Grades His Foreign Policy
Former law professor Barack Obama went into surprising depth on issues of war and peace during his fifth State of the Union address. Here’s how he should grade himself.
Mistaking Omniscience for Omnipotence
No one knows what a major state would be like if it radically cut back its intelligence services–but based on the recent American record, it’s hard to imagine we could be anything but better off.
The Merkel Phone Tap: Obama as “Unilateral” in His Own Way as Bush?
While some would argue that the United States and its allies routinely spy each other, it’s one thing to bug the Germany embassy in Washington, but another to tap into the phone of the leader of the country, as well as other officials. As we recently posted, spying by...