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Fighting Words

Ever since a New York Times newsroom revolt over a controversial op-ed, American media—if not American society at large—has been engaged in another round of debate about the limits of…

More Than a Data Dump

by James C. Goodale,

Why Julian Assange deserves First Amendment protection

Glasnost Half Full

From the transcript of a staff meeting at RBC, a media company based in Moscow, in July. An audio recording of the meeting was leaked to Meduza, a Russian-language news…

Now You Sisi

by Ahmed Ould Meiloud,

From a video of senior Egyptian army officers at a meeting held by General Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, leaked last October by the Islamist website Rassd News Network; the meeting is thought…

Rules of engagement

by Albert Camus,Translated by John Cullen,

7. The Marketplace of Ideas

by Jack Hitt,

From the Forum “Undoing Bush” On Thursday, June 6, 2002, FBI agent Coleen Rowley testified before Congress that 9/11 might have been avoided had her agency been better organized to…