The unlikely political alliance fighting government surveillance
There’s a common enemy uniting far left and right wing groups: Government surveillance.
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New FBI cybersurveillance power causes civil liberties alarms
Over the past several years, FBI Director James Comey has turned attention onto an issue where the increasingly common use of encryption technology prevents the federal agency from accessing information it needs, even with a court order.
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Second annual James W. Foley Freedom Awards to recognize Delphine Halgand, Emma Beals and Arwa Damon
The James W. Foley Legacy Foundation announced Tuesday its 2017 honorees, three extraordinary journalists: Delphine Halgand, the US Director of Reporters without Borders; Emma Beals, co-founder of the Frontline Freelance Register; and CNN Senior International Correspondent Arwa Damon.
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National Security Reporting in the Trump Era
Chicago students and their mentors in the national security specialization assessed the challenge to journalists in the new Trump administration.
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Week in Review — January 29, 2017
A compilation of top national security news from the week ending January 29.
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Police worldwide eye Baltimore’s vast surveillance complex
Baltimore is at the leading edge of deploying surveillance technologies. Even though its practices have raised questions about civil liberties and privacy, law enforcement agencies around the world see it as a test bed for the future of policing.
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CPJ Safety Advisory–Crossing the U.S. Border
Journalists traveling to or from the United States have been stopped, questioned and faced prolonged and invasive searches that have put the confidentiality of their sources into question. Over the past year, members of the A Culture of Safety (ACOS) Alliance, a coalition of news organizations, journalists, and press freedom groups that includes the Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, have documented at least seven such instances. In response to these incidents, CPJ’s Emergencies Response Team has issued the following advisory for journalists crossing the U.S. border.
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A realist approach to Russia
Some foreign policy thinkers hope Donald Trump will reform Washington’s broken relationship with Moscow through a strategy grounded in realpolitik.
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David Axelrod: The Man Behind Obama
“Journalism at its heart is a mission to try and shine a light in dark corners; not just in government, but in society,” Axelrod told said a group of Medill graduate journalism programs.
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Jim Webb praises populism at home, realism abroad
Jim Webb, the former U.S. senator, secretary of the Navy and brief candidate in the Democratic presidential primary, delivered the keynote address at The American Conservative’s Nov. 15 symposium, where his outsider sensibility and skepticism of U.S. military intervention abroad found warm welcome among the foreign policy scholars and writers in attendance.
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