Whether by accident or design, President Obama chose an interesting day to deliver his speech on the future of government surveillance. The speech fell on the anniversary of President Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, warning about the threat of the emerging national security state.
The soap opera continues. The FBI investigation into an alleged affair between General David Petraeus and biographer Paula Broadwell, which also implicated General John Allen and a Tampa-based fundraiser named Jill Kelley, has become very public knowledge. Petraeus resigned on Friday, hoping to get in front of the scandal before it thrust him any further into the spotlight. But Congress had other […]
U.S. Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) has served in Congress since Dwight Eisenhower was president. He is the longest-serving member of Congress and, this year, he is running for his 30th term. But he is facing his first challenge from another Democrat since 2002. We talk with Daniel Marcin, a Ph.D. student at the University of […]