There's an excellent article by the Wisconsin Citizens Media Co-op about one of the major suppliers of electronic voting technology in ...

If you don't read her book, at least watch this: (Another irresistible re-blog from Boing Boing ).

Long but worth it; via Phil Morton ; shot at SAIC ; sorry I have no further background; but I found Youngblood's discussion brilliant an...

B.O. was doubtless engaged in the same ritual just a bit earlier. The ensuing speech may be observed here .

No joke. More at Wikipedia .

is a Pullitzer-winning journalist who resigned from The NYT when he was told he could not keep his job there while publicly opposing the Ir...

Ever wonder if you should pay more attention to state and local governmental affairs? If you live in TX, The Texas Tribune can help, firs...

(in Dallas), here . Maybe it comes down to a simple typo: they meant " pork ," not "park." UPDATE: What becomes clear f...

By Evgeny Morozov at NPR.org : "A trusted colleague . . . has told me of a very disturbing episode . . . as [a friend] was flying to Ir...

per my friend there, 'cuz of the Han – Uyghur rioting in Xinjiang. See The NYT for the full story and how the Chinese government cont...

Based on a report for the Institute for Policy Studies , for example, General Motors, Wal-Mart, Exxon, and Ford are bigger than Poland, Saud...

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I'd prefer to focus my posts more on art and trash, but these days, that's not easy. According to The Washington Post , the FBI, Bri...

Remniscent of the Boston Mooninite scare : Like the Virginia DMV, most governmental organizations cannot function without citizens' will...