David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face  —  As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge - and the Guardian offices - have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing  —  In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly …

Cruz will renounce Canadian citizenship  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) announced Monday evening that he will renounce his Canadian citizenship, less than 24 hours after a newspaper pointed out that the Canadian-born senator likely maintains dual citizenship.  —  “Now the Dallas Morning News …

Meet Sunny: The Obamas' New Puppy  —  Today the Obamas welcomed the newest member of their family - a little girl (puppy) named Sunny!  —  Pin  —  Sunny was born in Michigan in June 2012, and arrived at the White House today.  Just like Bo, she's a Portuguese Water Dog …

Senator: Obama Administration Secretly Suspended Military Aid to Egypt  —  The White House has quietly placed military aid to Egypt on hold, despite not saying publicly whether the Egyptian military takeover was a coup, Josh Rogin reports exclusively.  —  The U.S. government has decided privately …

War on the Core  —  I respect, really I do, the efforts by political scientists and pundits to make sense of the current Republican Party.  There is intellectual virtue in the search for historical antecedents and philosophical underpinnings.  —  I understand the urge to take what looks …

Kerry Reinstates Benghazi Officials Clinton Punished  —  Secretary of State John Kerry has determined that the four State Department officials placed on administrative leave by Hillary Clinton after the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi do not deserve any formal disciplinary action …

LePage is heard to say Obama ‘hates white people’  —  Two Republican lawmakers confirm that the governor made the remark at a fundraiser last week.  —  Gov. Paul LePage last week told a group of Republicans that President Barack Obama “hates white people,” according to two state lawmakers who heard the remark directly.

School Has Become Too Hostile to Boys  —  And efforts to re-engineer the young-male imagination are doomed to fail  —  As school begins in the coming weeks, parents of boys should ask themselves a question: Is my son really welcome?  A flurry of incidents last spring suggests that the answer is no. In May …

Obama administration asks Supreme Court to allow warrantless cellphone searches  —  If the police arrest you, do they need a warrant to rifle through your cellphone?  Courts have been split on the question.  Last week the Obama administration asked the Supreme Court to resolve the issue …

Booker opponent's wife appeals to Oprah  —  The wife of Steve Lonegan, who is challenging Newark Mayor Cory Booker for New Jersey's Senate seat, wrote a letter to Oprah Winfrey on Monday asking her to consider her husband's story.  —  Praising Winfrey's influence on Americans and the impact …

Lee Daniels to Piers Morgan: Americans Are ‘Angry’ That Obama's President, Showing ‘True Colors’  —  Oprah Winfrey has been facing sharp criticism for her comments on race in recent weeks, but tonight on CNN, the director of her new film The Butler sat down with Piers Morgan and was faced …

Forced Exposure ~pj  —  The owner of Lavabit tells us that he's stopped using email and if we knew what he knew, we'd stop too.  —  There is no way to do Groklaw without email.  Therein lies the conundrum.  —  What to do?  —  What to do?  I've spent the last couple of weeks trying to figure it out.

Are the Rich Getting Too Much of the Economic Pie?  —  Inequality explained in pie charts (made of actual pie)  —  When one of you asked, “Are the rich getting too much of the economic pie?” the team behind Economics in Plain English got pretty excited.  Because you said “pie.”

The ObamaCare Prisoner's Dilemma  —  Why it's foolish to buy overpriced insurance.  —  With Barack Obama safely re-elected and ObamaCare's main provisions coming into effect, some supporters are striking a triumphal note.  Former Enron adviser Paul Krugman, for instance …

Modern Vote Suppression Better Than Jim Crow, Still Pretty Bad  —  A pervasive sense of racial victimization has afflicted conservatives during the Obama years — the feeling that they are beset by a combination of false accusations of racism and actual anti-white racial animus that they dare …