Your smartphone’s radio can be used to spy on you. The exiled NSA leaker teamed up with renowned hardware hacker Bunnie Huang to stop it. Crazy that we have to come up … Continue reading Snowden Designs a Device to Warn If Your iPhone’s Radios Are Snitching

On Wednesday, WSVN aired a cell phone video reportedly taken moments before caregiver Charles Kinsey was shot by North Miami police. In it, Kinsey, who survived, can be seen lying on the … Continue reading Video Shows Unarmed Black Man Pleading With Arms Raised Before Getting Shot by Police

It is often said when it comes to being President of the United States that there will always be someone who disagrees with what you said or what you’ve done. Criticizing the … Continue reading “Thanks Obama”

Dozens of lifelong Democrats were calling and Mark Monroe knew something was going on. They were calling the local Republican Party chairman because they wanted to join his party. Source: Political Anthropology: … Continue reading Political Anthropology: Outside Cleveland, Democrats are becoming Republicans

Just under half of U.S. workers said they felt satisfied with their jobs last year—the happiest they’ve been in a decade, according to a new report from the Conference Board, a research … Continue reading Job Satisfaction Hits a 10-Year High—But It’s Still Below 50% 

Women have always played a vital role in the United States military, but their duties have, for the most part, been sufficiently limited. Even as far back as the Revolutionary War, women … Continue reading Change for Women in the Military 

At least 56 civilians were killed on Tuesday in air strikes north of the besieged Islamic State-held city of Manbij in northern Syria, and residents said they believed the attack was carried … Continue reading Suspected U.S. coalition strikes kill 56 civilians in IS-held Syrian city: monitor

If Clinton is elected next year, look at whether she puts real political capital behind making small-donor matching funds a reality. As for overturning Citizen’s United… empty words as she won’t be … Continue reading Hillary Clinton’s Citizens United Pledge Doesn’t Matter; Her Small-Donor Matching Pledge Definitely Does

American Exceptionalism in its purest embodiment: The U.S. is not subject to the same rules and laws as other nations. U.S. drone kills of terror suspects are popular … Continue reading Would Turkey Be Justified in Kidnapping or Drone-Killing the Turkish Cleric in Pennsylvania?

As with many coups around the world, the aftermath will be bloody and repressive. It will be rule of the mob, rather than rule of law that will shape Turkish politics and … Continue reading Aftermath of Turkey ‘coup’ attempt will be bloody and repressive

“France must learn to “live with terrorism”, French PM Manuel Valls says after #NiceAttack https://t.co/UVBb4u9oF3” What? What leader would ever say that? Even during the most horrific war, a leader should never … Continue reading France must learn to “live with terrorism” says French Prime Minister Manuel Valls after #NiceAttack

The proposal will require food companies to disclose their GMO ingredients, but that information doesn’t have to be on the packaging. It’s a compromise, and neither side is all that enthused. This … Continue reading Congress Just Passed A GMO Labeling Bill. Nobody’s Super Happy About It