Those who refuse to recognize Snowden as a hero, and attack him for showing secrets to the press, are now compelled to admit that the NSA can't be trusted to keep its data about you and me private.

Of course, Snowden did not give this data to just any reporters. He chose reporters who would take care against harming the people mentioned in those data.

Palestinians are still organizing nonviolent resistance, but they need the rest of the world to notice it.

The Arab Peace Initiative proposed a peace plan which still offers a direction for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

State legislators acting as tools for ALEC copied the error from ALEC's model bill.

The bill would be just as bad if they had been more careful, but this shows they are tools of ALEC, and not even very competent ones.

A former chief British spy says that ISIS is not interested in attacking the West, and that publicly calling it a threat is self-defeating.

ISIS is a threat to human rights in the Middle East, and that makes it very bad. But we should not let governments make this an excuse for universal surveillance.