Another Reason to Use Cryptocurrency... "You may have heard of civil asset forfeiture. That's where police can seize property and cash without first proving a person committed a crime; without a warrant

"The team grew out of a group of students with programming skills and who chose the game chess due to its popularity in the computer science field. With a game that consists of 64 squares and two

Many states are incarcerating poor children whose families can't afford to pay juvenile court fees and fines, a report published Wednesday finds, which amounts to punishing children for their families'

Click here for the video from democracynow.org We continue our look at what the ACLU calls an illegal debtors’ prison in Arkansas by speaking with a former resident who wrote a check for $1.07 for a loaf

M.I.A. appeared on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show Thursday to play her collaboration with Zayn, "Freedun." The song will be on her new album A.I.M. which is coming out September 9. Listen here:

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has filed a notice of intent (PDF) to place the southeast Asian plant called kratom to the most restrictive classification of the Controlled Substances Act. The plant,

A cluster of hacking tools developed by the NSA have been acquired by a private group called ShadowBrokers. ShadowBrokers are planning on selling them to the highest bidder. "[One] tool allows the

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This bill would have required a $5,000 license fee in order to use cryptocurrency. August 18, 2016 State lawmakers were poised to quickly jam through an amended version of a digital currency licensing

by Nadia Prupis, Common Dreams The pharmaceutical lobby is gearing up for a massive, multi-million-dollar post-election ad blitz to fight the shifting rhetoric surrounding drug prices, Politico reports.

August 06, 2016 by Lauren McCauley, Common Dreams Pivoting off of the recent news that there is an outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus that has infected over a dozen people in Miami's Wynwood

Celestial Homework is a specialized reading list for "Literary History of the Beat Generation," a course taught by Allen Ginsberg at Naropa Institute during the summer of 1977. I put together

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Designer babies, the end of diseases, genetically modified humans that never age. Outrageous things that used to be science fiction are suddenly becoming reality. The only thing we know for sure is that

" One woman told the Los Angeles Times she saw Romero toss a handgun toward a fence while he was running away from the police. She says the gun went off when it hit the ground. She says she then heard

AS THE OLYMPICS unfold in Brazil this week, the digital rights group AccessNow started a petition to make sure the government there doesn’t turn off the Internet. But that’s not a thing Brazil could do,

"The FBI’s call for technology companies to be forced to include backdoor access into their encrypted devices is highly reminiscent of the NSA’s development of the Clipper chip in 1993, which was

"My name is Jason Somerville, and if you know one thing about me, it's that I believe people ought to have the freedom to be who they are and follow their own passions. Well, one of my passions is

M.I.A.’s new album, AIM, is out September 9 via Interscope. She’s already shared “Borders” and “Go Off” from the record. Today, she’s released “Bird Song,” produced by Blaqstarr Also, M.I.A. says this