Freedom on the Web

Well Informed

by Steve Benson, GoComics.com

The Fifth Horseman

by Robert Ariail, GoComics.com

Thirty Five Years after Iranian Hostage Crisis, Aftershocks Remain

by Stephen Kinzer, Boston Globe

Your Tax Dollars at Play

by Bart Hinkle, Richmond Times-Dispatch

Mark Udall’s Loss Is a Blow for Privacy, But he Can Go Out with a Bang: ‘Leak’ the CIA Torture Report

by Trevor Timm, Guardian

Can Congress Even Touch America’s Out-of-Control Spies and Feds?

by Lucy Steigerwald, Rare.us

Skewering the “Shadow Government”

by Philip Giraldi, Unz.com

Bill Gross Should Stick to Shuffleboard — His Case for Bigger Deficits Is Ludicrous

by David Stockman, Contra Corner

Neocons Argue U.S. Fights Too Few Wars, but They Are Wrong

by Bruce Fein, Washington Times

Comforting the NSA and Afflicting Its Dissenters

by Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic

Thatcher’s Favourite Still Has Much To Teach Us

by Lucy O'Carroll, Financial News

Slow Moving Lava

by Gary Varvel, GoComics.com

The Leading Terrorist State

by Noam Chomsky, Truthout

James Risen’s ‘Pay Any Price’

by Louise Richardson, New York Times

Risen’s Low-Keyed Book About the War on Terror (Book Review)

by Thomas Farrell, Opednews.com

Sentencing Reform and How to Right the Drug War’s Wrongs

by Lucy Steigerwald, Washington Post

Surprise! Controversial Patriot Act Power Now Overwhelmingly Used in Drug Investigations

by Radley Balko, Washington Post

Conservatives Should Oppose the Drug War

by Steve Buckstein, Oregon Catalyst

Relieving World Misery

by Bruce Fein, Washington Times

‘Citizenfour’ — a Real-Life Thriller for the Obama Era

by Kate Aronoff, Waging Nonviolence

Governmental Piracy by IRS

by Robert W. Merry, Washington Times

Quarantined

by Scott Stantis, GoComics.com

The Fall of the Berlin Wall: A Pyrrhic Victory

by Bruce Fein, Washington Times

Disparate Outrage: 150 Deaths is a Tragedy; 500,000? Just a Statistic

by Scott McPherson, Portsmouth Patch

Why Innocent People Plead Guilty

by Jed S. Rakoff, The New York Review of Books