Security-State Creep: The Real NSA Scandal Is What's Legal
The Court has failed to develop a robust system for applying the Fourth Amendment meaningfully to the questions of the 21st century.
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The Court has failed to develop a robust system for applying the Fourth Amendment meaningfully to the questions of the 21st century.
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A collection of reports and analyses to get you caught up on this week's scandals
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Surprise: Your leaders are monitoring the calls you make! Some frequently asked questions, answered.
Washington Post
Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple are all implicated.
Pew
Portable communication went from anomaly to ubiquity in record time.
CCC
Read this letter. It may not change your mind about Sean Parker, but it adds some important details about the nature of the construction at the site.
Alexis Madrigal
The imagined community of mediocre delivery pizza, an Object Lesson
Jewish Time Jump
Discovering the tale of a massive 1909 garment-workers strike in New York City's Greenwich Village
Reuters
Contemplating the scale and capriciousness of the damage
NASA/SDO
An extensive coronal hole rotated toward Earth last week--and astronomers were there to capture it.
NASA
Meet the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two nearby galaxies.
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We're fast approaching the point, says Con Slobodchikoff, when computers will help to mediate our communications with animals.
Ryan Stephens/Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources/Rebecca J. Rosen
What if we could do the same for humans?
California Coastal Commission
Nothing says, "I love the Earth!" quite like bringing bulldozers into an old-growth forest to create a fake ruined castle.
Riff Raff
When you point a camera at most people, they can't think of anything to say. When you point a camera at this guy, he can say anything.
Yale
Just like your car, it stalls. And now we have photographic evidence of the stalling.
NASA
Linguists offer new insight into the "one small step for (a) man" debate.
Sciencexpress
Those little hexagon diagrams you studied in chemistry class turn out to be very close representations of the real thing, as new pictures show.
James Fallows on Jerry Brown's second chance. Plus: the mystery of the second skeleton, how gay couples are getting marriage right, the end of the retail salesperson, and more.
