Suing to overturn Utah's "ag-gag law".

The NSA says it can't search its own emails.

That's ridiculous — it can search yours and mine.

A thug who leaked photos of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been tentatively punished.

It is interesting to compare this case with that of Edward Snowden. Both released confidential government data, but beyond that the circumstances were very different. Whereas Snowden's leaks told us about massive and grave government abuses, Murphy's only attempted to make Tsarnaev look bad — for shallow reasons.

Tsarnaev is accused of murdering several strangers, and I see no doubt about his guilt. This is the basis of my opinion of him. Only a fool judges someone morally based on how handsome or how weak he looks. How foolish it would be to think better of Tsarnaev due to a photo in Rolling Stone. How foolish it would be to think worse of him due to photos leaked by Murphy.

The World Bank invests in mining companies, then pressures countries to rewrite their mining laws to favor those companies.

California's planned "digital license plates" could lead to even more surveillance of car travel.