Updated: 1:01 p.m. EDT Twelve hours after his national security adviser called a Washington Post report that he had shared highly classified information with Russia “false,” President Donald Trump chose not to do so, arguing instead that his office gives… Read More ›
Archive for May 2017
We are upgrading our blog!
In the next few days we will be in the process of upgrading blog.torproject.org. While we get prepared to refurbish the space, the current blog will be frozen for new content, starting now. This includes posts and comments and, if… Read More ›
Can the Anti-Trump Resistance Take Philadelphia’s DA Office?
Larry Krasner, Philadelphia’s insurgent candidate for district attorney, has built his campaign around three pledges: to end mass incarceration, to stand up for people’s rights and liberties, and to resist the Trump administration. In Philadelphia, as in much of 2017… Read More ›
Obama’s Deportation Policy Was Even Worse Than We Thought
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement imprisons more than 10,000 parents of American citizens in California each year, according to a report released today by Human Rights Watch. The report, entitled “I Still Need You,” analyzes the impact of immigration enforcement policy on… Read More ›
Charlottesville Vigil Against Hate Outdraws White Supremacist Rally
Hundreds of protesters gathered for a candlelit “vigil against hate” on Sunday night in Charlottesville, Virginia, one day after a smaller number of white supremacists carrying torches had rallied at the same spot — around a statue of Robert E…. Read More ›
Will Freshman Congressman Ro Khanna Chart a New Course for Democrats?
Freshman California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna rode to an upset victory this past November over long-serving California Democrat Mike Honda on a wave of Silicon Valley support. Among his prominent backers stood titans of the tech industry such as Yahoo executive… Read More ›
Mother’s Day in an ICE Detention Center
The woman arrived at the U.S.-Mexico border with her daughter in late April. “From what I had heard about the U.S., it was supposed to be a country that practices showing love to their fellow man. But what I have… Read More ›
“Misunderstanding Terrorism”: How the Us vs. Them Mentality Will Never Stop Attacks
Finding and stopping terrorists before they strike is often compared to looking for a needle in a haystack, a cliché that speaks to the difficulty of preventing a crime that, while deadly, is uncommon. Counterterrorism officials still suggest that the task would… Read More ›
Leaked NSA Malware Is Helping Hijack Computers Around the World
In mid-April, an arsenal of powerful software tools apparently designed by the NSA to infect and control Windows computers was leaked by an entity known only as the “Shadow Brokers.” Not even a whole month later, the hypothetical threat that criminals… Read More ›
Trump Threatens Comey With Secretly Recorded “Tapes” of Their Conversations
Updated: 5:10 p.m. EDT Here’s your morning Impeachment Watch: The president of the United States, @realDonaldTrump, just publicly threatened to release secretly recorded tapes of his conversations with James Comey, the former FBI director he fired this week. James Comey better… Read More ›