The Patriot Act Renewal Tramples Free Speech

The Bush team and their congressional allies are in the final stages of jamming a Patriot Act reauthorization act into law.  The reauthorization bill will give the feds new power to suppress Americans’ speech. The Act contains a provision that will empower the Secret Service to forcibly expand the Free Speech Zones that have blighted dissent […]

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Death Spiral of American Democracy?

Is American democracy in a death spiral? Do we now have democracy only in form – akin to the Soviet-era “People’s Democracies” where governments won every election? Will the combination of mass ignorance, lying politicians, and boundless government power be fatal to our remaining freedoms? These are some of the questions examined in my new book, […]

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