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The New York Federal Reserve Board, charged with overseeing Wall Street banks, turned over its normally staid official blog this week to a highly contentious argument in defense of high-cost payday lenders, who […]

This article, which accompanies Heloisa Passos’ film Karollyne, is the second of a two-part series. The first part is a companion to the film Birdie. 
ROUGHLY SEVEN MINUTES AWAY from my house by car, down a mou […]

From his home in Rio de Janeiro, The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald writes extensively on international politics. But as any viewer of the Academy Award-winning documentary Citizenfour can attest, he shares that h […]

For years, EFF has been working to protect the Web from surveillance and censorship by making encryption ubiquitous. Fixing problems with the Internet’s certificate infrastructure has been at the top of that […]

Washington is abuzz with rumors Vice President Joe Biden will soon enter the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. While a new campaign would seek to capitalize on Biden’s two terms as vice president, i […]

College students in Mississippi are confronting the national legacy of racism and slavery in a new battle over the display of Confederate symbols. The student government at the University of Mississippi will vote […]

Canadian voters have unseated right-wing Prime Minister Stephen Harper after nearly a decade in office. In a surprise result following the closest election campaign in recent history, the centrist Liberals jumped […]

Canada: Right-Wing PM Stephen Harper Ousted by Justin TrudeauIsrael Arrests Dozens in West Bank amid Ongoing ViolencePentagon: Troops Drove Through Locked Gate at Bombed Afghan HospitalNATO Launches Massive […]

The Central Intelligence Agency is under renewed legal pressure to release “thousands” of records pertaining to its international drone war, following an appeal filed Monday by the American Civil Liberties in Was […]

What happens when ICANN’s rules that require domain name registrars to publish domain owners’ personal data in a public database, conflict with the data protection laws in countries where those registrars […]

Far too often Congress proposes tech legislation that is either poorly researched or poorly drafted (or both). Fortunately, most of the bills don’t advance. Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to dissuade Congress f […]

From scientific research to lawmaking, open access enables participation

Open access is the practice of making research available online, for free, ideally under licenses that permit widespread dissemination. […]

Today is the first day of Open Access Week. All week, we’ll be joining SPARC and numerous other organizations to celebrate the importance of open access.
Put simply, open access is the practice of making r […]

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President Barack Obama is vowing to veto the Pentagon budget bill heading to his desk, in part because it creates legal roadblocks that would prevent him from closing the detention center a […]

Wednesday Hearing On EFF Demand to Disclose Export Applications for Surveillance Technology Stanford, California—On Wednesday, October 21, at 12:45 pm, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) will urge a f […]

David Talbot, author of “The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government,” re-examines what happened in Dallas on November 22, 1963, and looks at John F. Kennedy’s relat […]

Voters go to the polls in Guatemala on Sunday to elect a new president after a popular uprising led to President Otto Pérez Molina’s resignation and jailing. We speak with journalist and historian David Talbot, au […]

The Israeli government has rejected a French call for international observers at the Temple Mount, the holy site that has been a flashpoint for the current unrest in Israel and the Occupied Territories. The United […]

The death toll from violence in Israel and the Occupied Territories has increased with new Palestinian stabbing attacks and an intensified Israeli crackdown. On Sunday, an attacker identified as a 21-year-old Arab […]

Israel: Eritrean Bystander Mistaken for Attacker Beaten, Shot to DeathSyria: U.S. Drone Strike Kills Accused Khorasan Group LeaderDoctors Without Borders: U.S. Strike on Hospital Not a MistakeClinton, Sanders Back […]