Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

The federal government is often said in militia circles to have made wholesale seizures of power, at times by subterfuge. A leading grievance holds that the 16th Amendment, which authorizes the federal income tax, was ratified through fraud.

Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.

Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.