Glenn Greenwald Takes Apart David Gregory for Trying to Criminalize Journalism

Glenn Greenwald Takes Apart David Gregory for Trying to Criminalize Journalism

GREENWALD: I think it’s pretty extraordinary that anybody who would call themselves a journalist would publicly muse about whether or not other journalist should be charged with felonies.

Worth watching. David Gregory, are you serious?

High-income kids who don’t graduate from college are 2.5 times more likely to end up rich than low-income kids who do get a degree

High-income kids who don’t graduate from college are 2.5 times more likely to end up rich than low-income kids who do get a degree

The American Dream isn’t dead. It’s just moved to Denmark.

The argument that we should tolerate growing inequality because of our great mobility is based on fiction. We have growing inequality and shrinking mobility.

Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance

Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance

The programs of the past can be characterized as “proximate surveillance,” in which the government attempted to use technology to directly monitor communication themselves. The programs of this decade mark the transition to “oblique surveillance,” in which the government more often just goes to the places where information has been accumulating on its own, such as email providers, search engines, social networks, and telecoms.

Worth a read. The defender of the NSA policy seem to think this is a simple matter of privacy. It isn’t.