I was surfing the web last night and came across a pretty humorous post on Andrew Malcolm’s Top of the Ticket political blog in the Washington Post. He wrote about how last Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee had a hearing with Supreme Court Justices Breyer and Kennedy regarding the impact of social media on the third [...]
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For nearly five months last year, the Indian-administered region of Kashmir protested the treatment of its citizens by the Indian government. What began as a response to an incident along the India/Pakistan line of control escalated once Indian paramilitary forces entered the fray. Innocent teenagers, many of them promising students, were killed as the government attempted [...] In his piece, “Against Transparency”, Lawrence Lessig dives deep into an argument for why government disclosure, even on certain salient issues like campaign finance, isn’t necessarily an absolute good when it comes to political discourse in the United States. I was specifically intrigued by his use of the Hillary Clinton example and what would eventually become [...] After the revelation that Jared Loughner—the gunman in the Giffords shooting—had posted a series of YouTube videos cataloguing his crazed thoughts, the attention in the mainstream media turned to the impact of vitriol in political commentary. While contributors on both the left and the right tried to paint the incident as an instance of extremism from [...] |
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