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Edward Snowden
October 24, 2016
Jeet Heer
Edward Snowden is wrong.
October 7, 2016
Gavin Jacobson
Snowden vs. Le Carré
What do John Le Carré's classic espionage novels mean in the age of surveillance?
October 4, 2016
Nicole Narea
Yahoo’s surveillance program shows why internet companies shouldn’t be deputies of law enforcement.
September 22, 2016
Jacob Silverman
The CIA Road Show
How the intelligence community has used "transparency" to create perfectly dull political theater.
September 15, 2016
Will Leitch
Snowden: Make Oliver Stone Mad Again
The national security cover-up of the century should have lit a fire under Oliver Stone. Instead, it made him complacent.
July 29, 2016
Sukjong Hong
Edward Snowden and Wikileaks are having a very public falling-out.
April 15, 2016
Clio Chang
Edward Snowden’s techno song is dorky but great.
April 4, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
Edward Snowden’s got nothing on the Panama Papers.
January 22, 2016
Ryu Spaeth
This is the worst thing Edward Snowden has ever done.
November 18, 2015
Nausicaa Renner
Why We Trade Privacy for Facebook Likes
A legal theorist’s new book explains how our desires are woven into the surveillance state.
November 16, 2015
Alex Shephard
John Brennan and James Woolsey think Edward Snowden should be blamed for the Paris attacks.
November 12, 2015
Gabriel Snyder
Edward Snowden’s first rule of privacy is: Remember how to keep a secret.
October 25, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
The Edward Snowden Documentary Accidentally Exposes His Lies
August 13, 2014
Yishai Schwartz
Wired Conveniently Forgot to Ask Edward Snowden a Single Tough Question
July 18, 2014
The New Republic Staff
The National Security State Simply Isn’t a Winning Issue for Politicians—On Either Side of the Aisle
May 30, 2014
Benjamin Wittes
Edward Snowden’s NBC Interview Revealed His Ultimate Arrogance
April 18, 2014
Benjamin Wittes
Edward Snowden Is Russia's Puppet Now
Any shred of heroism was lost at Putin's press farce
April 15, 2014
Marc Tracy
The Pulitzers Didn’t "Vindicate" Anything Except Good Journalism
March 10, 2014
Mimi Dwyer
SXSW Grants Edward Snowden Immunity From Tough Questions
A softball interview did the leaker no favors
January 22, 2014
Marc Tracy
Snowden Speaks, Says He Acted Alone. Should We Believe Him?

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