Outside the Beltway

The mainstream media isn’t and shouldn’t become a counterpart to the right-wing infotainment complex.

The one-time Juiceboxer is still annoying the mainstream media.

I mean, really, really, really bad for the former President and his legal team.

Whether dupes or active participants, the damage is real (and points us back to 2016).

Journalism is terrible except when compared to the alternatives.

Don’t believe your lying eyes.

The Internet killed the newspaper without really replacing it.

Reflections on the events of 6 January two months later.

Perhaps the most normal thing President Trump has done.

A trend continues.

The iconoclastic journalist is out at the publication he founded.

The findings are a dispiriting Rorschach test.

The Wikileaks founder has been detained by London authorities after 7 years hiding in Ecuador’s embassy.

A filing in an unrelated case has apparently revealed the existence of a sealed indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange.

Social media has altered the way writers and readers interact in odd ways.

While longtime supporters have turned on the legendary attorney over his support of Donald Trump, he’s been astonishingly consistent.

The President throws the US under the bus to defend Putin.

Fresh off an election victory, British Prime Minister David Cameron is set to propose a series of new measures to crackdown on extremism that raise serious civil liberties concerns.

Director of National Intelligence now tells Congress that he testified falsely about NSA spying because he forgot the program existed.

Dan Froomkin says Obama is as bad as Bush, if not worse.

The NSA and FBI are doing more spy stuff.

Thanks to Edward Snowden, the Washington Post and the Guardian are Pulitzer Prize winners.

Wonkblog’s founder is leaving the Washington Post to start a new media outlet of his own.

In a new interview, Edward Snowden explains his motives for absconding from the country with NSA secrets.

Does a determination that NSA data collection practices are likely unconstitutional mean that Edward Snowden’s actions were, in some sense, justified?

A potentially big legal setback for a big National Security Agency program.

The Justice Department is reportedly not planning to prosecute Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in connection with the Bradley Manning case.

Does the Attorney General really think advocacy is a crime?

NSA Director General Keith Alexander really doesn’t like the idea of a free press.

Once again, a Federal Court rules that the First Amendment rules does not protect a reporter from being compelled to reveal sources or the results of an investigation.

Focusing on Edward Snowden is largely a waste of time.

Does David Gregory consider Glenn Greenwald to be a reporter deserving of protection, or “just a blogger” who may be a potential criminal?

One Congressman thinks it would be a good idea to treat journalists as criminals.

Meet Edward Snowden, the 29 year old CIA/NSA contractor who has confessed to leaking the details of the NSA’s data mining projects.

Will voters care about the revelations about NSA data mining? Signs point to no.

Not only do we not know the whole story of the NSA data mining operation, key details of what thought we knew are wrong.

Big Brother is doing more than just checking your phone records.

The NSA’s data mining project is about more than just subpoenas for cell phone records.

Apparently, it’s not just reporters whose phone logs the Obama administration is tracking.

After many attempts to manufacture grand scandals out of very little, Republicans may finally have a legitimate outrage on their hands.

New questions about the interrogation of the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect.

MSNBC’s Chris Hayes uses a quota system to make sure his guests aren’t all white dudes.

One in eight Americans support drone strikes against Americans on American soil.

George Will declares solitary confinement tantamount to torture.

If nothing else, the Petraeus affair is teaching us a valuable lesson in just how extensive the Surveillance State has become.

If you thought the War On Terror might be over, think again.

My latest for The New Republic, “America’s Scandalous Drone War Goes Unmentioned in the Campaign,” is out.