Chris Bray

It’s an interview that has to be seen to be believed. BBC anchor Kirsty Wark lashed out at the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald as he explained his reporting on the U.S. National Security Agency and the U.K. Government Communications Headquarters. Wark also carefully avoided ...

Before they try to hear a mouse fart in Abbottabad, those clever government hacks should first run down to the breakroom and unplug the toaster. The National Security Agency is building a massive new data center in Utah, all the better to store your weekly phone call to grandma ...

A federal shutdown closes government, and a staggering 800,000 employees are sent home. A tiny skeleton crew of just three or four million struggles to keep the machine going, as the Washington Post explains: “That leaves about 1.3 million ‘essential’ federal ...

Commodify your dissent for real with the Occupy prepaid debit card, a new financial product still in the planning stages. “To make the card widely accepted,” reports ABC News, “the [Occupy Money] Cooperative has forged a relationship with VISA.” With ...

Where matters. Specifically, where a monument is built matters a great deal. These constructions are grown on particular sites, out of particular plans and origins, with a particular intent that can be subverted, or reinforced, over time. The context of the monuments should ...

Turns out Barack Obama is the commander in chief of the American military, and it’s “a role in which at times he has seemed uneasy.” This uneasiness, as the Washington Post reports, is a feeling whole-heartedly requited by top brass. “The prospect of an ...

There was the audible clicking of tongues, long sighs, and exasperated tut-tuts emanating from Slate last week when serial academic cum War Studies professor Thomas Rid fretted that the public debate over digital spying by the NSA, and its British counterpart the Government ...

Appearing like Brigadoon out of the smog of American political discourse, Russian president Vladimir Putin’s New York Times op-ed is a weirdly clear-eyed piece that reads as a reminder that power doesn’t have to speak in the babbling gibberish of our ...