The charges brought against the WikiLeaks founder would criminalize good reporting — The U.K. extradition hearing for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is now in its third week, but you would hardly realize it if you read only mainstream news outlets. Despite the fact that most of the major newspapers in the United States vehemently condemned the Trump administration’s charges against Assange as…

The Trump administration didn’t make the DHS into a freight train — it just stepped on the gas — Against the wishes of the city’s leaders and amidst cries of illegality around the country, nameless Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents have continued to teargas, pepper-spray, shoot at, and generally terrorize protesters in Portland for the second week in a row. …

And Adam Schiff, of all people, is the one giving it to him — For a few hours on Tuesday, it looked like the House of Representatives would finally vote to give Americans some much-needed online privacy protection against government abuse. …

With newspapers experiencing declining ad revenues, senators proposed relief for local newsrooms in the next stimulus bill — Day in and day out, local newsrooms are doing heroic work in the face of the coronavirus. On-the-ground coverage has been crucial for communities looking to stymie outbreaks and for hospital workers who lack critical protective gear. Journalists have been declared “essential” workers in states that are on lockdown. And…

The EARN IT Act would give the DOJ even more power to censor the internet — We already know the Trump administration, led by Attorney General William Barr, wants to find a way to ban end-to-end encryption — a vital security protection used by millions of Americans on their phones every day. Now a bipartisan group of senators, including leading Democrat Sen. …

Trump is just the latest president to suppress reporting on his administration. It’s time for Congress to fight back. — The Senate is now firmly entrenched in hearing arguments over whether to hear witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial, and yet again, a key issue — former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s conversations with Trump about Ukraine — was first uncovered by the press. Time and again during the impeachment saga…

Attorney General William Barr is demanding Apple weaken its encryption — with disastrous implications for everyone’s security — The Trump administration is now engaged in a multipronged effort to pressure tech companies to weaken encryption protecting the privacy of billions of people. And make no mistake: They are blatantly lying about it to try to get their way. First, Trump’s Justice Department targeted WhatsApp’s end-to-end encryption for messaging…

The Trump administration is yet again trying to start a major war based on lies. It needs to be stopped. — The rapid fallout of the Trump administration’s shocking assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani has been both unsettling and predictable to anyone who has warned of the grave dangers of provoking a larger war with Iran. It’s clear the Trump administration is actively deceiving the American public. It’s clear a…

Bernie Sanders’ willingness to criticize America’s military operations makes him an outlier among 2020 Democrats — Bernie Sanders’ has repeatedly touted how his “radical” positions in 2016 — Medicare for all, a $15 minimum wage, debt-free college — have caught on with the public and become increasingly mainstream Democratic positions for the 2020 election. But on foreign policy, as Sanders has tried to carve out a…