Friends of Mayor Densmore

Last week, 27 immigrant women detained at the for-profit T. Don Hutto facility in Austin began refusing meals, demanding an end to mistreatment and their immediate release. Most are asylum seekers from Central […]

The details are out on the the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and critics say the trade deal is worse than they feared. The TPP’s full text was released Thursday, weeks after the United States and 11 other Pacific R […]

Exxon Under Criminal Investigation over Lying About Climate ChangeReport: Climate Change Had Role in 50% of 2014 Extreme Weather EventsReport: Broad Global Support for Greenhouse Gas LimitsObama: It is […]

Imagine if public figures were given veto power over creative works that depicted or referenced them. Every biographer would need permission from his or her subject. Every documentary film producer would need to […]

Facebook has responded to an October 5 open letter from a global coalition, including EFF, about its broken “authentic name policy.” Facebook’s response is a step in the right direction. It’s also not the last […]

U.S. House Judiciary Committee Hosts Discussion in Santa Clara Santa Clara, California—On Monday, Nov. 9, at 2 p.m., Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Staff Attorney Kit Walsh will participate in a roundtable d […]

A REPORT RELEASED TODAY by the medical aid group Doctors Without Borders (Médicins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) alleges that a U.S. gunship killed doctors and medical staff as they fled from a burning hospital tar […]

A new biography of George H.W. Bush is getting a lot of attention, mostly because of Bush’s criticism of Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. But there’s another revelation from Destiny and Power: The American Odys […]

Trade offices involved in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement have finally released all 30 chapters of the trade deal today, a month after announcing the conclusion of the deal in Atlanta. […]

This weekend marks the third annual Aaron Swartz Day hackathon, and a chance for you to meet up with other people working to use technology to make the world a better place. Once again, cities around the world […]

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LEAKED INTERNAL EMAILS from the powerful Democratic think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) shed light on several public controversies involving the organization, particularly in regard to […]

House Democrats seeking answers from pharmaceutical companies accused of jacking up prices on vital medications have run into a stone wall in the form of Republican Oversight Committee chair Jason Chaffetz, who […]

New Zealand’s spy watchdog has launched an inquiry into her country’s links to the CIA’s detention and interrogation program.
Cheryl Gwyn, the inspector general for intelligence and security, said the U.S. Senat […]

Actor, poet, photographer and book publisher Viggo Mortensen, star of the “Lord of the Rings” franchise, reads his poem “Back to Babylon” from his newly reissued book, “Twilight of Empire: Responses to […]

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have voiced support for President Obama’s plan to keep U.S. troops in Afghanistan through the end of his term in 2017. Obama had declared an o […]

Award-winning film director Quentin Tarantino is refusing to back down from his criticism of police brutality, even as police unions have launched a campaign to boycott his films. Tarantino sparked controversy […]

Viggo Mortensen, the actor known by millions for his portrayal of the warrior-king Aragorn in the blockbuster “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, joins us to talk about peace, the ongoing wars in the Middle East, U.S. […]

MSF Report on U.S. Bombing of Hospital: “Attack Was Conducted with Purpose to Kill”Mexico Supreme Court Opens Door to Marijuana LegalizationBernie Sanders Introduces Bill to Ban Drilling on Public LandRomania: […]

The British government on Wednesday published a proposed new law to reform and dramatically expand surveillance powers in the United Kingdom. The 190-page Investigatory Powers Bill is thick with detail and it will […]

This post was updated on 11/5/2015 to correct an error. The post originally stated that LTE-U was only going to be deployed in the U.S.; it is also being planned for deployment in other countries including India […]