The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
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Police Killed More Than Twice As Many People As FBI Reported; Darren Wilson Walks
An average of 545 people killed by local and state law enforcement officers in the U.S. went uncounted in the country’s most authoritative crime statistics every year for almost a decade, according to a report released on Tuesday.
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How the Government Outsourced Intelligence to Silicon Valley
Palantir – with its carefully honed image as a countercultural spy outfit committed to privacy in the pursuit of national security – is a monstrous government snoop, mining our most intimate data.
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Fear Incorporated: Canada’s Anti-Terror Bill and the Emergence of a Deep Police State
Bill C-51 represents a clear erosion of constitutional rights – if the bill becomes law, blocking a pipeline or organizing a protest without permission from authorities would be considered terrorism.
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Watched While Driving: Five Important Questions About the Federal Vehicle Surveillance Program
The DEA is collecting hundreds of millions of records about cars traveling on U.S. roads – but who approved the program, where does the data go, and are there limitations on its use? No one seems to know.
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The Disappeared: Chicago Police Detain Americans At Abuse-Laden "Black Site"
The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, essentially disappearing Americans and locking them in the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
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Texas Judge Who Blocked Obama Immigration Action Had Criticized "Criminal Conspiracy" Policy
U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen once accused the president's administration of participating in criminal conspiracies to smuggle children into the U.S. by helping reunite them with parents who live here illegally.
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Pentagon Makes No Secret of Wanting to Monitor Social Change Activism
The U.S. military is increasingly concerned about the risks to social, political and economic stability from resource stress and climate change – and whether they might lead governments to collapse.
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Monitors to Phones to Meals: These 5 Corporations Are Quietly Making Billions Off Incarceration
Companies off the popular radar are benefiting from epidemic prison and jail building – some may even be even operating in your neighborhood.
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Anti-Tar Sands Activists Are Getting FBI Visits
Opponents of Canadian oil say they’ve been contacted, at home and through calls and texts, by FBI investigators in several states following their involvement in protests that delayed northbound shipments of equipment to the oil sands.
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Lynching In America: New Report Documents Nearly 4,000 Killings In Jim Crow South
Researchers at the Alabama-based Equal Jusitice Initiative reviewed historical archives, court records and African-American newspapers, and interviewed historians, lynching survivors and victims' descendants to calculate the figures.
