Betting on immigration reform
A recent Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll “found that only 25 percent of Americans support allowing immigrants to obtain U.S. green cards or permanent resident status through a lottery system, while 60 …
Second Circuit Court upholds Ulbricht’s double life sentence
Nearly two years ago Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to 2 life sentences plus 40 years in prison for his role in creating and operating the Silk Road online market. This …
Trump to continue Obama’s War on Whistleblowers
George Orwell once wrote, “Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” This statement has become increasingly truer over the last decade with Thomas Drake, Shamai Leibowitz, Chelsea Manning, Donald …
NSA: America’s Elf on the Shelf
Since 2005 families across the country have been using The Elf on a Shelf to watch their children and report back to Santa about whether the kids should be on …
Pentagon investigates itself, finds no war crimes committed in MSF bombing
Over six months after a trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, operated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF), “was hit by a series of aerial bombing raids at approximately 15 minute intervals” …
SCOTUS hears immigration case
In November 2014 President Obama issued an executive order deferring or preventing deportation for roughly 4 million people. According to Reuters, “those who have lived illegally in the United States …
Cuba: The final front in the Cold War
Despite the renewal of diplomatic relations between the governments of the US and Cuba, there remains an embargo on, among other things, books and educational materials. There is now a …
Snowden, Ulbricht and the myth of a fair trial
It was the first official event hosted by the Free State Project after the February 3 announcement that the group had reached it’s goal of 20,000 signers on the statement …
Top 5 stories of 2015: a year in review
As 2015 comes to a close, it’s time to look back at some of the biggest stories of the year. #5 Asset forfeiture halted!? At the beginning of the year, …
Omnibus spending bill violates your privacy
Many headlines recently proclaimed that Congress averted another government shutdown. Fewer headlines proclaimed that the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill included several “useless provisions” and provisions that are not directly …