Politics and Policy

One of the leading preventable causes of death, is a direct result of Congressional inaction to fix a broken system.

Wheaton v. Peters (1834)

Letting Special Interests Run Wild

“Virginia is Open for Innovation”

The Most Important Change in Mobile Policy in Nine Years

With SOPA, the industry had the money, the lobbyists, and the organization. But we, the digital generation, are the trump card—and we won. Now it’s up to us to make sure that the historic protest was not merely a historical aberration.

When did we decide that we wanted a law that could make unlocking your smartphone a criminal offense? The answer is that we never really decided.

Congress’s constitutional role for war-making power is not merely one of oversight. The US cannot initiate war without affirmative action from Congress (except for timely exigent circumstances).

If the Intelligence Committees’ primary jobs are to provide adversarial oversight rather than to be the intelligence community’s lobbyists inside of Congress, then it is time for a new committee make-up

Defenders of the program say its effectiveness excuses it — but they ignore the Fourth Amendment.

Craigslist claims that just 1 scraping website would cost them 130 times world GDP. Which also happens to be 1.8 million times Craigslist.com’s estimated market cap of $5 billion.