Children in Pakistan are getting sick with polio: perhaps this will convince the religious crazies to allow vaccination.

Obama proposes totally inadequate measures to encourage universities to compete on tuition.

Ladar Levison can't talk about his court battle for our privacy rights, but he's drawing a lot of attention to the issue.

The US director of "national security" has started a blog with the aim of "more transparency".

This reflects his persistent campaign to make our activities and conversations more transparent to them.

The ACLU on the steady militarization of thugs in the US.