“It definitely makes Europe a less favorable place for these companies to do business. . . . But that’s a balance these countries are allowed to ma...

For the past seven years Sascha Meinrath and his team at the New America Foundation have made the Open Technology Institute a force for promoting a...

Tim Wu, 41, a law professor at Columbia University, isn’t a direct participant in the rule making, but he is influencing it. A dozen years ago, bui...

“In the age of the strategic corporal, "Got me!" is of course the wrong answer to journalistic queries. It has the distinct virtue of honesty, howe...

Since the 1950s, late night TV has been the world of the infomercial: late night hucksters selling ginsu knives, wearable towels, Snuggies... But i...

Abubakar Shekau, the leader of Boko Haram, a militant Islamist organization, released a video on Monday claiming responsibility for kidnapping more...

That's how things worked when Tim Wu, an academic who's now a law professor at Columbia, coined the term network neutrality in 2002. ISPs purchased...

The U.S. drone campaign in Yemen is very much President Obama's war.

As is often the case with big news events, much of what we understood to be the case in the immediate aftermath of the event and what we now know a...

Since 9/11, extremists affiliated with a variety of far-right wing ideologies, including white supremacists, anti-abortion extremists and anti-gove...

India's general election, the largest democratic exercise in history, begins Monday.

One year after the Boston Marathon bombings and almost three years after his death in a CIA drone strike in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, the New Mexico-...

"Cuban authorities already try to paint critical bloggers like Yoani Sanchez as U.S.-funded mercenaries, and the report about ZunZuneo will only gi...

Afghans will go to the polls on Saturday to elect their second president since the overthrow of the Taliban in the winter of 2001. You might be won...

What went wrong? In recent months the normally hyper-discreet Saudis have gone on the record about their dissatisfactions with the Obama administra...

The Obama administration is proposing to scrap the NSA's bulk collection of all Americans' phone call records. The administration's proposal is emi...

“We could remember this as the beginning of the cable-ization of the Internet,” lawyer and Internet policy expert Marvin Ammori said, “where some ‘...

It is, of course, hard to prove negatives, but having spent around a year reporting intensively on the hunt for al Qaeda's leader for my 2012 book ...

Emily Parker, a New America Foundation fellow who has a new book on digital activism in authoritarian governments, noted that many people are able ...

Could the mystery of Malaysia Airlines 370 then be explained as an act of terrorism?

Air Safety Week, an aviation industry magazine, ran a story in January 2001 observing that, "the number of cases where the sanctity of the cockpit ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sheri Fink were among the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards, named Thursday night in New York City. T...