Friends of Mayor Densmore

On Tuesday, Bernie Sanders called for the U.S. to seek a “level playing field” in its approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Speaking after his surprising victory in the Michigan Democratic primary, Sand […]

One of the United States government’s priorities in Internet policy is encapsulated by a term that’s recently been making the rounds; the “free flow of information.” It appears almost every time U.S. officials […]

FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, Donald Trump’s three primary election victories last night represented new momentum for the party’s likely presidential nominee. For Muslims living in the United States today, parti […]

This release fixes many security issues and users should upgrade as soon as possible.
New features

Add support for viewing DVDs with DRM protection. (#7674)

Upgrades and changes

Replace Vidalia, which has been […]

Tor Browser 5.5.3 is now available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.
This release features important security updates to Firefox.
This release bumps the versions of […]

A new alpha Tor Browser release is available for download in the 6.0a3 distribution directory and on the alpha download page.
This release features important security updates to Firefox.
This release bumps the […]

A new hardened Tor Browser release is available. It can be found in the 6.0a3-hardened distribution directory and on the download page for hardened builds.
This release features important security updates to […]

Hillary Clinton continues to fundraise with fracking investors, despite her assertion Sunday that she would largely curtail fracking inside the U.S.
Fracking is a controversial mining technique used to extract […]

As Donald Trump won three out of four states on Tuesday, Republican efforts to derail his candidacy are increasing. The Huffington Post has revealed leading establishment Republican political figures met with top […]

We continue our conversation on the 2016 race with a discussion between Dolores Huerta (a backer of Hillary Clinton), Cornel West (a backer of Bernie Sanders) and Melina Abdullah of Black Lives Matter. We talk […]

Black Lives Matter activists have helped make racial injustice and police brutality key issues in the 2016 presidential campaign. But Black Lives Matter has decided not to endorse any presidential candidate. We […]

In the most shocking upset of the 2016 presidential campaign to date, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders defeated Hillary Clinton in the Michigan primary. Sanders won 50 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 48. During t […]

Sanders Wins Michigan Primary, Shocking the PollstersDonald Trump Wins 3 States; Ted Cruz Takes IdahoReport: Pentagon Gives White House Plan to Bomb ISIL in LibyaU.S. Student Killed Amid Series of Attacks During […]

A wave of knife attacks on Israelis continued on Tuesday, as a Palestinian man, suspected of killing an American tourist and stabbing at least nine others, was shot and killed by police officers near the port of […]

NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden says the FBI’s ostensibly last-ditch attempt to unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook’s iPhone is a sham.
The FBI last month persuaded a federal judge that the only way […]

The U.S. used drones and manned aircraft yesterday to drop bombs and missiles on Somalia, ending the lives of at least 150 people. As it virtually always does, the Obama administration instantly claimed that th […]

Last week, EFF filed a brief in support of Apple’s fight against the FBI, in which we argued that forcing Apple to write—and sign—a custom version of iOS would violate the First Amendment rights of Apple and its p […]

[Editor’s note: Award-winning cartoonist Matt Bors is moving his irreverent comics publication, The Nib, to First Look Media, The Intercept’s parent company. He will also be a contributor to The Intercept.]

A […]

The court fight between Apple and the FBI prompted a slew of letters and legal briefs last week from outside parties, including many tech companies and privacy groups. But a particularly powerful letter came from […]

Honduras is still reeling from last week’s assassination of Berta Cáceres, one of the country’s most well-known environmental and indigenous leaders. She was gunned down in her home early Thursday, less than a ye […]