Whistleblower Russell Tice says that the NSA's data is regularly used to blackmail officials including members of Congress.

NSA sysadmins can access any data about anyone. Snowden used this to inform us all, but a criminal-minded sysadmin could use this to get data to blackmail someone.

Aside from blackmail, here are some bad things that could happen to you thanks to massive surveillance.

AT&T can use King's "I have a dream" speech to sell phones, but you can't post it.

The public deserves answers to the questions about what would happen after a US attack on Syria — and why possible paths for peace are not being pursued instead.

Envisioning what Martin Luther King Jr. might say today in the age of plutocracy.

A church group that feeds homeless people in Raleigh, North Carolina, was told they'd be arrested if they did not stop. It is illegal to feed the homeless there.

The Republicans who voted for this law probably claim to be Christians, but they'd put Jesus in prison too. When they talk about "family values" they mean "Walton and Koch family values".