Timothy B. Lee
Former senior correspondent
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Larry Lessig is backing long-shot candidate Jim Rubens in the Republican primary for US Senate in New Hampshire. The pick shows how difficult it is to find Republicans who support his campaign finance agenda.
On Friday, the House of Representatives approved legislation, previously passed by the Senate, that legalized cell phone unlocking. But the bill does nothing to fix broader problems with copyright law.
In the Ukrainian version of a filibuster, opposition figures physically block access to the speaker’s rostrum, preventing the speaker from conducting business.
On Thursday, Ukraine’s governing coalition collapsed just a few months after taking power. Here’s why Ukrainian politics is so dysfunctional.
The death of Eric Garner after an altercation with the New York police was caught on video. But his is hardly the first case where alleged police misconduct was caught on video.
The IRS’s system for managing public documents is stuck in the 20th Century.
Form 990, which provides basic information about tax-exempt groups, is supposed to be public information. So why does the IRS make it so hard to get?
The House of Representatives has approved legislation that would make it harder for cities to build their own broadband networks.
In the wake of today’s shoot-down of a Malaysian plane, the skies over Ukraine are almost empty.
An appeals court ruling calls into question the validity of many software patents.