Friends of Mayor Densmore

Vigilant Solutions, one of the country’s largest brokers of vehicle surveillance technology, is offering a hell of a deal to law enforcement agencies in Texas: a whole suite of automated license plate reader ( […]

The legendary actor and director Robert Redford founded the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, in 1978. It’s now among the largest film festivals in the country, with some 50,000 attendees. “What I never e […]

Actor and director Robert Redford founded the Sundance Film Festival, which has helped independent voices develop their craft—in film, theater and music—and reach new audiences. Redford joins us in Park City to […]

Forty years ago, the legendary actor Robert Redford starred in one of the most celebrated journalism films of all time: “All The President’s Men.” Redford and Dustin Hoffman portrayed Washington Post reporters B […]

Two activists featured in Josh Fox’s new documentary, “How to Let Go of the World and Love All the Things Climate Can’t Change,” join us to discuss the role of direct action in fighting global warming. Aria Doe […]

As 2015 goes down as the world’s hottest year on record and the East Coast continues to dig out from one of its worst snowstorms in history, we look at the new documentary by Josh Fox. In “How to Let Go of the W […]

Grand Jury Probing Planned Parenthood Instead Indicts 2 Anti-Abortion ActivistsObama Moves to Ban Solitary Confinement for JuvenilesReport: Warming Seas Expanding Twice as Fast as Previously ThoughtDanish […]

Now that the mass collection of telephone records by the NSA under Section 215 of the Patriot Act has ended due to the passage of USA Freedom, the question has arisen: what should the NSA do with the big mass of […]

Last week, as part of EFF’s annual Copyright Week, we wrote about the need for transparency in creating copyright restrictions in the international arena. As a current legal battle shows, however, it is equally i […]

Saadiq Long, the Muslim U.S. Air Force veteran who was secretly placed on the no-fly list in 2012 and then smeared by a fabricated news report last December claiming he was arrested in Turkey “as a member of an IS […]

AT THE SENTENCING last week of Daniel Holtzclaw — the 29-year-old former Oklahoma City police officer convicted on 18 counts of rape and sexual assault of African-American women in the neighborhood he was as […]

Anti-corruption activist and law professor Zephyr Teachout announced this morning that she will be running for the U.S. House of Representatives to represent New York’s 19th congressional district.
Teachout is b […]

Citizens Rightfully Expect Privacy in Data That Reveals Their WhereaboutsChicago—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal appeals court in Chicago to rule that police need a warrant to access c […]

Former president Bill Clinton joined his wife and daughter in assailing Bernie Sanders’ single-payer health care plan last week, saying that it would lead to “overcharging and inflation.”
But in 2009, he defend […]

A small email provider and its customers have almost single-handedly forced the Swiss government to put its new invasive surveillance law up for a public vote in a national referendum in June.
“This law was a […]

A growing number of actors and filmmakers are pushing for a boycott of the Oscars after no actors of color were nominated for a second year in a row. The largely white male Academy of Motion Picture Arts and […]

Last week saw a series of anti-choice protests surrounding the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade. In Washington, D.C., protesters bearing photos of fetuses descended on the construction site for a new Planned […]

As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a landmark abortion case that could gut Roe v. Wade, we look at a startling new documentary, “Trapped.” The film addresses TRAP laws—Targeted Regulation of Abortion P […]

Friday marked the 43rd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. And just weeks from now, the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a case that could […]

Record-Breaking Snowstorm Pummels East Coast, Killing 30Record Cold Sweeps Across Parts of AsiaFrench President Hollande Seeks to Extend State of EmergencySyria: At least 164 Killed in Assad and Russian […]