This Week's Senate Scandal: Scorn for the 4th Amendment
Crucial attempts to rein in government spying failed Thursday, guaranteeing that the privacy of more innocent Americans will be violated. More »
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Conor Friedersdorf is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs. He lives in Venice, California, and is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter devoted to exceptional nonfiction.
Crucial attempts to rein in government spying failed Thursday, guaranteeing that the privacy of more innocent Americans will be violated. More »
The tradition dates back to December 31, 1907, though the balls have changed along with technology. More »
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An admission officer's uncomfortable explanation for why they don't get in as often as their test scores would predict suggests it's not. More »
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His broadcasts since the Newtown shooting are an apt illustration of his self-contradiction and lack of intellectual integrity. More »
Watch Bill Clinton slam a Republican adversary ... for raising taxes. More »
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A retrospective look at the ideas that mattered in the last 12 months. More »
Current policy isn't an NRA conspiracy. Americans have become increasingly opposed to controls even as debate on the subject rages. More »
During the 2008 election, he argued that supporting the war was proof of inferior foreign-affairs judgment. You'd never know it now. More »
Longstanding social norms on matters like gay rights are no longer presumed to be correct. For better and worse, our current era requires actual reasoned debate. More »
Weapons systems that fire autonomously are the apotheosis of elites insulating themselves from accountability. More »
If progressives can't find effective foils to develop their ideas, that's because they're not looking in the right places. More »
More than any other politician in America, her candidacy would change the contours of the next election. More »
The federal government had to thumb its nose at states to end slavery and Jim Crow. Now it's the reverse: States are leading the way against Washington's myopic drug policy. More »
The conservative columnist justifies Obama's secretive killing spree in the abstract, but he grievously ignores how the war is actually carried out. More »
