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For Muslim American guests attending a viewing party on Tuesday night at the Council on Islamic American Relations’ D.C. headquarters, President Barack Obama’s final State of the Union speech struck a lot of imp […]

Executives of Al Jazeera America (AJAM) held a meeting at 2 p.m. Eastern Time to tell their employees that the company is terminating all news and digital operations in the U.S. as of April 2016, resulting in t […]

THE FOOTAGE IS unquestionably dramatic: Members of Mexico’s most elite security forces clear a four-bedroom house in a predawn raid. Over the course of 15 chaotic minutes, the Mexican marines can be seen moving r […]

EFF Urges Department of Education to Uphold First Amendment Rights in University Anti-Harassment PoliciesSan Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) urged the Department of Education today to protect […]

The President’s State of the Union address examined a great many pressing issues confronting our nation and the world. One of the most dire, however, somehow escaped his attention: the continuing threat to d […]

Hillary Clinton’s sudden attack on Bernie Sanders’ single-payer health care plan is a dramatic break with Democratic Party doctrine that the problem with single-payer is that it is politically implausible — not t […]

Near the end of President Obama’s final State of the Union address, he eloquently called for Americans to take back the U.S. political system from big money:
“We the People.”
Our Constitution begins with those […]

Medea Benjamin is the co-founder of CodePink, known worldwide for activism in the cause of justice and determination to confront politicians directly. Benjamin has been removed from scores of congressional […]

The broadcaster Tavis Smiley made headlines this week for an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” when he called out Donald Trump for being an “unrepentant, irascible, religious and racial arsonist.” Trump responded b […]

We speak with Claudia Palacios, a racial and migrant justice activist and a U.S. Marines veteran. Palacios was among seven people arrested on Friday after blocking traffic in New York City to protest the federal […]

News broke last night, hours before President Obama’s State of the Union address, that two U.S. Navy ships “in the Persian Gulf” were “seized” by Iran, and the 10 sailors on board were “arrested. […]

President Obama’s State of the Union Tuesday night was the seventh and final of his presidency. Obama defended his record while implicitly criticizing the Republican candidates who want to succeed him. While m […]

Obama Condemns Islamophobia in Final State of the UnionIran Releases 10 U.S. Sailors Who Entered Iranian WatersPakistan: Suicide Bomber Attacks Polio Center, Killing 15Turkish Authorities Blame ISIS for Deadly […]

Apple CEO Tim Cook lashed out at the high-level delegation of Obama administration officials who came calling on tech leaders in San Jose last week, criticizing the White House for a lack of leadership and asking […]

Hillary Clinton’s campaign has been excoriating fast-rising rival Bernie Sanders for his proposal to adopt a single-payer universal health care plan. But in 2008, she decried the notion that a fellow Democrat wo […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the nonprofit body that maintains the Web’s core standards, made a terrible mistake in 2013: they decided to add DRM—the digital locks that train your computer to say “I c […]

Congressional Representatives grilled the parties responsible for the U.S. implementation of controversial changes to the Wassenaar Arrangement in a joint hearing before subcommittees of the House Oversight and […]

INTERVIEWING THE MOST WANTED MAN in the hemisphere is not something any sane person undertakes lightly. Aside from weighing the risk to one’s personal safety, a journalist must also protect his or her source by […]

When courts fail to quickly address serious defects in a patent litigation complaint, it can harm not only the parties to the case, but also the public at large. Yesterday, EFF and Public Knowledge filed […]

Company Built Customized ‘Golden Shield’ System to Identify Falun Gong Members Who Were Later TorturedSan Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal appeals court to reinstate a lawsu […]