Domestic/U.S.

  • The Inconvenient Ideal

    Although an amendment in the House this past July to defund one of the National Security Agency’s dragnet surveillance programs fell short by 7 votes, the coalescence of ideologically-dissimilar representatives who voted for it marked a watershed moment in our current dialogue on citizen rights. The amendment in question sought to rein in the N.S.A’s

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  • What’s In a Name?

    I stood in that hallway. I could have been standing in the middle of a four-lane expressway with cars zooming past me at 100 miles per hour and it wouldn’t have mattered. I was somewhere out in the wild. And if it all felt so foreign and a bit unnerving, maybe it was because I

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