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New approval procedures for using spies will be required under legislation announced by minister for policing Ministers have announced proposals to tighten up the regulation of undercover police following a succession of scandals over the infiltration of protest groups. Damian Green, the minister for policing, told MPs on Tuesday that under the plans to be [...]
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In the fall of 1941, John Horne Burns, Andover ’33, Harvard summa cum laude ’37, was teaching English at the Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut. Burns was an isolationist (“I am a pacifist. I don’t want to get shot,” he had said), a linguist (fluent in French, Italian, and German), and musician, an accomplished pianist [...]
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Dear Cary, I write to you about the idea of identity, particularly my identity as an American in the wake of the NSA warrantless wiretapping and PRISM program. Growing up, perhaps naively, I have carried this ideal of America, freedom, liberty and the right to privacy as absolutes. The First Amendment of free speech and [...]
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Taylor Swift might not want to be a feminist, but that hasn’t stopped the rest of us from wishing that she were. Sure, she throws us a female empowerment bone every once in a while, giving the occasional public, barely veiled middle finger to the men who have wronged her (who among us hasn’t dreamed [...]
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WikiLeaks founder fears moves are under way by the US to prosecute him on espionage charges over cable releases Julian Assange will not leave Ecuador’s embassy even if Sweden drops its extradition bid over accusations of sexual assault, because he fears moves are already underway by the US to prosecute him on espionage charges, he [...]
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