History The Pentagon Papers were first published 52 years ago Elías Villoro

politics Mainstream media quit Pentagon rather than sign pledge Rob Beschizza

pentagon U.S. military caught running secret vaccine smear campaign Ellsworth Toohey

tabloids Royal scandals in this week's dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

war "Sir, No Sir!" is a documentary about the U.S. military's own opposition to the Vietnam war Elías Villoro

hackers A New HOPE (Hackers on Planet Earth) conference in NYC this summer! David Pescovitz

9/11 Pro-Trump attorney Lin Wood suggests Twin Towers weren't hit by planes: "we got played" Mark Frauenfelder

Tags Tags everywhere Tags Former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel dead at 91 Rob Beschizza

media Gripping oral history of the Pentagon Papers from the New York Times David Pescovitz

UFOs Those times the US military hoaxed the public about extraterrestrial contact David Pescovitz

DRONES That mysterious jetpack guy that flew over LAX? It was probably this drone. Thom Dunn

happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz

happy mutants Jonathan Lethem on Edward Snowden's "Permanent Record" Cory Doctorow

snowden Real-world whistleblowing vs Malcolm Gladwell's bizarre theory of whistleblowing Cory Doctorow

picks North Dakota must drop outrageous charges against journalist Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now" Trevor Timm

happy mutants Computer-mining poetry from the New York Times's obituary headlines Cory Doctorow

spooks Washington Post: first newspaper ever to call for prosecution of its own source Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Edward Snowden on the accelerating pace of whistleblowing, and what it means for state secrecy Cory Doctorow

edward snowden Snowden: US attorney general promises not to torture me if I return to US Mark Frauenfelder