It is a sign of their wrong path that party strategists are holding onto the same identity politics they have used since the 1960s to divide Americans into hyphenated special-interest groups.
On Friday Barack Obama will talk about the future of the NSA. He will have to restore public trust in government. But what will happen if he fails? (by Shoshana Zuboff)
What kind of message are we sending about the viability these democratic ideals—about openness, transparency, public participation, public collaboration? How hollow must American exhortations to democracy sound to foreign ears? Mr Snowden may be responsible for having exposed this hypocrisy, for having betrayed the thug omertà at the heart of America’s domestic democracy-suppression programme, but the hypocrisy is America’s.
Dank den Hinweisen aus den USA seien in Deutschland Anschläge verhindert worden, sagt der Innenminister. Kritik an der Datenüberwachung durch den NSA sei unangebracht.