Friends of Mayor Densmore

EARLIER THIS YEAR, The Intercept got a new visual identity, the first step in a multi-phase redesign. Later this month, we’ll be making an important change that’s invisible to our readers, adding a new analy […]

THE ILLINOIS POLICE OFFICER hailed as a heroic G.I. Joe when he was found dead in August committed suicide, according to investigators. Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz shot himself amid fears that the police […]

ALLEN LEBLANC LED A VIGOROUS LIFE as a young man growing up in Mossville, Louisiana. He had a sheet-rocking business, drove trucks, and worked at the Conoco oil refinery. He helped his mother and stepfather run […]

More than two dozen civic groups groups are asking why government agencies haven’t found somebody to respond to possible human rights violations within the agencies’ areas of responsibility — as required by a 19 […]

Two years after NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed the vast reach of U.S. and U.K. surveillance, the U.S. Congress rolled back the most manifestly unconstitutional element: the bulk collection of domestic […]

Tails, The Amnesic Incognito Live System, version 1.7, is out.
This release fixes numerous security issues. All users must upgrade as soon as possible.
New features

You can now start Tails in offline mode to […]

A new stable release for Tor Browser is available from the Tor Browser Project page and also from our distribution directory.
This release features important security updates to Firefox.
Additionally, we included […]

A new alpha Tor Browser release is available for download in the 5.5a4 distribution directory and on the alpha download page.
This release features important security updates to Firefox.
Moreover, it comes with […]

With just over a year left in office, President Obama is running out of time to fulfill his longstanding promise to close the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. The imprisonment of foreigners at Guantánamo i […]

In the largest one-time release of federal prisoners in U.S. history, more than 6,000 inmates have been freed early under a resentencing effort for people convicted of nonviolent drug crimes. Decisions by the U.S. […]

This report was co-written by MuckRock Editor JPat Brown. MuckRock Co-founder Michael Morisy, MuckRock Intern Lukas Knight, and EFF Activism Intern Annelyse Gelman also contributed to this report. Another version […]

Tuesday was Election Day in the United States as voters across the country decided ballot initiatives and elected city and state leaders. In one of the most closely watched races, tea party favorite Matt Bevin won […]

A mass protest is set for Puerto Rico on Thursday over the federal government’s unequal payments to the island’s Medicare and Medicaid programs. For decades, Congress has capped federal reimbursements of Pue […]

Tea Party Favorite Wins Kentucky Governor’s RaceElection Day: Pot Legalization, LGBT Rights, Airbnb Limits DefeatedWar-Torn Yemen Battered by Historic CycloneChina Burned More Coal Than Initially DisclosedLeaders […]

Good news for Firefox users sick of online trackers shadowing their every click: Mozilla just released Tracking Protection for use with their private browsing mode.  
As we wrote previously, we think it’s imp […]

Ahmad Chalabi, the George W. Bush administration’s favorite Iraqi — at least until the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq in 2003 — has just died in Baghdad at age 71.
According to the headline of his New York Time […]

It’s a story political journalists couldn’t resist. Reporters at the New York Times, Politico, Yahoo News, and other outlets have been rhapsodizing lately about how the ultra-conservative billionaire Koch bro […]

Chelsea Manning, the military whistleblower who leaked revealing information about the war in Iraq, announced Tuesday that she has been spending some of her time in prison writing a 139-page bill that proposes to […]

Businesses should not be able to restrict customers’ speech
Are there limits to what a company can put in a standard form contract, like a click-through agreement? Can a company take away its customers’ fre […]

THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY concluded in June that there was “no convincing evidence” that glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the U.S. and the world, is an endocrine disruptor.
On the face of […]