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In Brazil, Major New Corruption Scandals Engulf the Faction that Impeached Dilma

A primary argument made by opponents of impeachingBrazilian president Dilma Rousseff was that removing her would immediately empower the truly corrupt politicians in Brasília – the ones who were the driving force behind her impeachment – and they would then use that power to kill ongoing corruption investigations and shield themselves from consequences for their own law-breaking. In that regard, Dilma’s impeachment was not designed to punish corruption but to protect it. The last two weeks ha...

Media Stars Agree to Off-the-Record Meeting With Trump, Break Agreement, Whine About Mistreatment

A glittering array of media stars and network executives made pilgrimage on Monday to the 25th floor of Trump Tower to meet with the president-elect.They all agreed that the discussions would be “off the record”: meaning they would conceal from their viewerswhat they discussed. Shortly after the meeting ended, several of the stars violated the agreement they made, running to the New York Post and David Remnick of the New Yorker to whine about Trump’s mean behavior. “The participants all shook...

The Stark Contrast Between GOP’s Self-Criticism in 2012 and Democrats’ Blame-Everyone-Else Posture Now

It is not an exaggeration to say that the Democratic Party is in shambles as a political force. Not only did it just lose the White House to a wildly unpopular farce of a candidate despite a virtually unified establishment behind it, and not only is it the minority party in both the Senate and the House, but it is getting crushed at historical record rates on the state and local levelsas well. Surveying this wreckage last week, partystalwart Matthew Yglesias of Vox minced no words: “the Obama...

In the Trump Era, Leaking and Whistleblowing Are More Urgent, and More Noble, Than Ever

For the past 15 years, the U.S. government under both parties has invented whole new methods for hiding what itdoes behind an increasingly impenetrable wall of secrecy. From radical new legal doctrines designed to shield itsbehavior from judicial review to prosecutingsources at record rates, more and more government action has been deliberately hidden from the public.

One of the very few remaining avenues for learning what the U.S. government is doing — beyond the propaganda that itwants Amer...

Reckoning With a Trump Presidency and the Elite Democrats Who Helped Deliver It

The United States has been plunged intoa state of purgatory following the election of Donald Trump. In all political quarters, people are engaged in their own post-mortem analysis of how this happened and what it means, not only for the future of this country, but for the world. Trump ran on a pledge to engage in mass deportations, deny Muslims entry to the U.S., strip abortion rights, and “bomb the shit” out of ISIS. Although Trump has staked out conflicting positions on a wide range of issu...

Reckoning with a Trump Presidency and the Elite Democrats Who Helped Deliver It

The United States has been plunged intoa state of purgatory following the election of Donald Trump. In all political quarters, people are engaged in their own post-mortem analysis of how this happened and what it means, not only for the future of this country, but for the world. Trump ran on a pledge to engage in mass deportations, denying Muslims entry to the US, the stripping of abortion rights and threats to “bomb the shit” out of ISIS. Although Trump has staked out conflicting positions o...

Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit

The parallels between the U.K.’s shocking approval of the Brexit referendum in June and the U.S.’ even more shocking election of Donald Trump as president last night are overwhelming. Elites (outside of populist right-wing circles)aggressively unified across ideological lines in opposition to both. Supporters of Brexit and Trumpwere continually malignedby the dominant media narrative (validly or otherwise) as primitive, stupid, racist, xenophobic, and irrational. In each case, journalists who...

Hillary Clinton tem enormes chances de vencer segundo grande parte das pesquisas

Grande parte dos brasileiros, assim como o resto do mundo, aguarda ansiosamente o resultado das eleições presidenciais americanas entre a candidata do Partido Democrata, Hillary Clinton, e o candidato do Partido Republicano, Donald Trump, que parecem não ter fim. Essa ansiedade, embora seja compreensível, contradiz praticamente todas as pesquisas e modelos estatísticos publicados pela mídia, que dão como quase certa a vitória de Clinton.

A candidata democrata lidera praticamente todas as pesq...

Three New Scandals Show How Pervasive and Dangerous Mass Surveillance Is in the West, Vindicating Snowden

While most eyesare focused on the presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, three major events prove how widespread, and dangerous, mass surveillance has become in the West. Standing alone, each event highlights exactly the severe threats thatmotivated Edward Snowden to blow his whistle; taken together, they constitute full-scale vindication of everything he’s done.

Earlier this month, a special British court that rules on secret spying activities issued an emphatic denuncia...

Three New Scandals Show How Pervasive and Dangerous Mass Surveillance is in the West, Vindicating Snowden

While most eyes are focused on the presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, three major events prove how widespread, and dangerous, mass surveillance has become in the west. Standing alone, each event highlights exactly the severe threats which motivated Edward Snowden to blow his whistle; taken together, they constitute full-scale vindication of everything he’s done.

Earlier this month, a special British court that rules on secret spying activities issued an emphatic denun...