Civil Liberties

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  Editor's Letter

  Editor’s Letter – March, 2014

  March 1, 2014 - 

  It’s a rare media cycle when an American publication goes to press without a story on Russia. In recent months, subjects including Sochi’s Olympics, laws that would prohibit “gay propaganda” or annex Ukrainian land and the arrests and releases of artists and activists, among them members of Pussy Riot and Greenpeace, have regularly splashed across […]  More

  By Marisa Mazria Katz

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  Feature

  Overhead: New Photos of the NSA and Other Top Intelligence Agencies Revealed

  February 10, 2014 - 

  Artist Trevor Paglen offers a glimpse of America’s vast surveillance infrastructure, photographing three of the most powerful U.S. intelligence agencies and placing the images in the public domain.  More

  By Trevor Paglen

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  Op-Ed

  Shirin Neshat to President Rouhani: “Take Care of Your Artists”

  February 3, 2014 - 

  In a speech delivered to President Rouhani and other global leaders at the 2014 World Economic Forum, artist Shirin Neshat praised the importance of culture in times of political crisis, calling on the Iranian president to respect artists’ voices and build a new image for her native country.  More

  By Shirin Neshat

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  Dispatch

  On the Outskirts of Crypto City: The Architecture of Surveillance

  January 7, 2014 - 

  Amid the banal office complexes of Fort Meade, Maryland, artist Ingrid Burrington investigated many of the private contractors that feed on the NSA surveillance empire. Burrington found what she calls “bland temples to the many demigods of an infinitely complicated cult.”  More

  By Ingrid Burrington

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  Interview

  Guantanamo Is Not an Exception: U.S. Prison Policy, from California to Cuba

  December 16, 2013 - 

  In this podcast, artists Chitra Ganesh and Mariam Ghani, whose work explores subjects like the prison at Guantanamo Bay and the “war on terror,” speak with human rights lawyers Alexis Agathocleous and Ramzi Kassem about U.S. prison policy across the globe.  More

  By Mariam Ghani and Chitra Ganesh