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Trevor Timm
Trevor Timm is a Guardian US columnist and executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a non-profit that supports and defends journalism dedicated to transparency and accountability. Follow him on Twitter: @TrevorTimm
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From inside the CNN debate in California, we saw a meandering three hours of women’s rights, immigration and much, much more
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It’s time for presidential hopefuls to turn their right-wing opinions into feasible governance prescriptions
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Bush’s poll numbers have dropped so low that it’s getting hard to call him a frontrunner with a straight face
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Republicans will never have any luck condemning Trump, but he’ll never win the presidency anyway
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But the chances of her being prosecuted are little to none, because important people with connections rarely are
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The US military has no intention of withdrawing the remaining 9,000 troops from Afghanistan after 2016. We’ve seen this mission creep before — in Iraq
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From Barack Obama to Hillary Clinton, and from Rand Paul to John Boehner, politicians seem to realize that putting so many people in prison isn’t popular
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Our own government, as well as police and intelligence agencies around the world, will likely mine facial recognition data or create their own databases
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Why should anyone trust what the US government says on cybersecurity when they can’t secure the systems they have full control over?
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The drone strikes in Yemen are a reminder that the ‘rules’ are virtually meaningless. That sets a terrifying precedent for the next president
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Torture architects are television pundits and given enormous book contracts while Guantanamo detainees still can’t discuss what happened to them
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Patriot Act provisions covering bulk collection of phone records expire at midnight – will Rand Paul stand firm or can a compromise be reached?
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Obama’s critics often say that there’s no daylight between him and Bush when it comes to surveillance. Take our quiz and decide for yourself
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The GOP candidates use innuendo and coded language to push the need for ground troops into public discourse. At least the military hawks are more overt
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The Senate majority leader’s post-midnight ‘emergency’ votes failed to renew the government’s domestic spying programs or reform them. Now what?
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