Edward Snowden has taken the world on a wild ride over the last two and a half weeks, revealing first a pair of massive NSA surveillance programs, and then his own identity, motives, and level of access to the sort of information he revealed. This weekend, Snowden himself became the focus of the story. On […]
Thanks to Wikileaks’s distribution of diplomatic cables between the United States and Spain, we now know that the U.S. government heavily influenced the drafting of Spain’s copyright legislation. Now, a leaked letter, dated December 12, 2011, indicates the U.S. ambassador’s anger towards the Spanish Prime Minister’s office for failing to pass the Sinde Law, a […]
Topeka, Kansas high school senior Emma Sullivan found herself in uncharted territory last week when she posted a tweet to her fifty-odd followers during a visit from Kansas Governor Sam Brownback to her school. “Just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person,” she tweeted, adding, “#heblowsalot.” The governor’s communications […]
