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Matthew Harwood

Liberty: Not the Daughter But the Mother of Order

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What Are You Afraid Of if You Have Nothing to Hide?

David Shipler has written an ode to American civil liberties — and possibly its eulogy.

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Welcome Back to Freedom

Jaime Bartlett set out to chronicle the depravity of the Dark Web. He found something way more interesting and liberating.

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Your Data or Your Life

No matter what security hawks tell you, argues Bruce Schneier, they can’t protect you and their cures are worse than the disease.

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Fear, Inc.

Dana Priest and William Arkin explore the subterranean power structure of “Top Secret America.”

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Prohibition’s Killing Fields

Journalist Johann Hari disabuses you of everything you know about drugs and the misguided and tragic war against them.

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Global Thug State

The national security state, Tom Engelhardt argues, is being run by people who believe they should have ungodly powers to rule the world.

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Broken

Ann Jones’ “They Were Soldiers” is the 21st-century equivalent of Dalton Trumbo’s horrifying antiwar novel, “Johnny Got His Gun.”

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How the Castle Crumbled

Journalist Radley Balko provides an extraordinary look into how law enforcement agencies became more like a standing army than a peace force.

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Force Rules Everything Around Us

David Graeber gives a persuasive anarchist critique of state and corporate bureaucracy and why we’re so servile to them.

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The Killing Years

Journalists Mark Mazzetti and Jeremy Scahill take readers on a horrifying journey through America’s embrace of extrajudicial killing.