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U.S. to Halt Withdrawal of Troops from AfghanistanIsrael Deploys Thousands of Soldiers, Police amid ViolenceIsraeli Police Fatally Shoot Fleeing Palestinian Youth Holding KnifeU.S. Deploying Soldiers to Cameroon […]

HENRY MONTGOMERY had just turned 17 when he shot a sheriff’s deputy in East Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It was November 13, 1963. The police officer, Charles Hurt, was on patrol for truants in the African American nei […]

Bernie Sanders garnered one of the biggest applause lines during the debate Tuesday night — and a trending hashtag — when he slammed the media for focusing on Hillary Clinton’s “damn emails” instead of asking th […]

There’s an adage that goes: “As goes California, so goes the nation.” In all fairness, that’s said about a lot of states, but we believe it is especially true for California, since not only is the Golden State b […]

A shorter version of this post ran as an op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News on October 6, 2015.
The ubiquitous blue “Like” or “Share” buttons that you see all over the Internet are hiding an ugly secret. Startin […]

The Marco Civil Da Internet, Brazil’s Internet bill of rights, was a unique achievement in modern law. Net users, academics, technologists, businesses and representatives of government all contributed to it in a […]

Hillary Clinton asserted at Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden “stole very important information that has unfortunately fallen into a lot of the wrong han […]

Clara Hill is certain the boys didn’t kill anybody. She has known since she was 14 years old – almost three decades ago. But when she tried to tell police the truth, she says, they hurt her.
It was the spring of 1 […]

During the debate, Senator Bernie Sanders defended democratic socialism and declared he was not a capitalist. “Do I consider myself part of the casino capitalist process by which so few have so much and so many […]

Democratic candidates sparred on Tuesday about what should happen to NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. “He stole very important information that has unfortunately fallen into a lot of the wrong hands,” said […]

O Marco Civil Da Internet, carta de direitos da Internet brasileira, foi uma conquista única na legislação moderna. Usuários de Internet, acadêmicos, tecnólogos, empresários e representantes do governo contri […]

On the foreign policy front, the candidates debated the U.S. invasion of Iraq as well as a possible no-fly zone in Syria. “I will do everything that I can to make sure that the United States does not get involved […]

Arguably the most contentious moment of the night was the presidential candidates’ debate over gun control, which has become a major campaign issue in the wake of deadly school shootings in Oregon and beyond. F […]

Another topic of debate during the first Democratic presidential debate was the issue of immigration reform and whether undocumented immigrants should have access to Obamacare. Clinton said she would support […]

Unlike during the first two Republican presidential debates, one of the key issues in the first Democratic debate was racial inequality and the Black Lives Matter movement. Candidate Martin O’Malley came under f […]

In the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2016 campaign, five contenders squared off last night in Las Vegas: former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, former Maryland […]

Five Democrats Square Off in First of Six Presidential DebatesAfghanistan: Taliban Ends 15-Day Takeover of KunduzIn Reversal, Obama Considers Keeping 5,000 Troops in AfghanistanU.S. and Russia Hold Talks on Air […]

In one of the more dramatic salvos of the first Democratic presidential debate on Tuesday, Martin O’Malley took a swipe at Bernie Sanders, claiming that the Vermont senator “panders to the NRA.”
O’Malley reiterate […]

A new analysis of federal data from Syracuse University finds that the Justice Department’s criminal prosecutions of corporations fell 29 percent from 2004 to 2014, even as criminal referrals to the Justice D […]

Meet Barak Weinstein, EFF’s new executive assistant. Barak will be assisting EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and EFF Deputy Executive Director and General Counsel Kurt Opsahl. This is Barak’s second tour at E […]