Timothy B. Lee
Former senior correspondent
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A new report from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights suggests that five policies practiced by the National Security Agency are in violation of international human rights law.


Strict housing regulation have prevented the Silicon Valley boom from creating more middle-class jobs.


A training document at the National Security Agency used the ethnic slur to refer to a fictitious terrorism suspect.

Scott Sumner argues that the left and the right both underestimate the power of monetary policy.


Larry Lessig’s Mayday PAC has raised $5 million to change how American elections are financed. But getting Republican support will be challenging.


Barack Obama’s leading candidate for head of the US Patent and Trademark Office is Phil Johnson, who lobbied against a White House-backed patent reform bill.


The Obama administration has admitted that the FBI searches for Americans’ private communications in a database assembled using the NSA’s warrantless spying program.

Venture capitalist and Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen says that Bitcoin today has a lot in common with the internet two decades ago.


People used to think the idea of a phone with a built-in camera was ridiculous.


A federal appeals court has ruled that regulations of tour guides violate the First Amendment.