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It's Not Journalists' Job To Protect Government Secrets

With the controversy over the leaked White House group chat, mainstream media have been treating secrecy as a virtue and disclosure as a vice. That’s a dangerous game.

Reason · Mar 26, 2025

A decade on, Edward Snowden remains in Russia, though U.S. laws have changed

A decade ago, we were still exploring the technological wonders of cellphones and other electronic devices. Few were thinking about how they could be used to monitor us. Then came Edward Snowden.

WEKU · Jun 4, 2023

Trump is now effectively in control of the US House of Representatives

Kevin McCarthy will be a mere stooge – that is, until he’s replaced by someone even more Trumpist

The Guardian - US · Nov 17, 2022