Politics Stories for 2015

Chrome Extension Offers Trump-Free Browsing 247
Sweden's Cash-Free Future Looms -- and Not Everyone Is Happy About It 440
Ask Slashdot: We've Had Online Voting; Why Not Continuous Voting? 490
Pirate Bay Cofounder Utterly Bankrupts the Music Industry 261
US Stops British Muslim Family From Boarding Flight To Visit Disneyland 704
The Science Behind the Paris Climate Accords 118
HTTP Error Code 451 Approved For Censored Web Pages 141
Bernie Sanders Campaign Blocked From DNC Voter Info After Improper Access 313
North Carolina Town That Defeated Solar Plan Talks Back 336
Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband 352
Mars Colonies and Class Warfare 414
Carly Fiorina Says Government Needs a Way To "Work Around" Encryption 345
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster Now Can Perform Marriages In New Zealand 209
NY Attorney General Wants Public To Report Broadband Speeds 99
A Typo Almost Derailed Paris Climate Deal 339
North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun 760
Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors 247
WSJ: New Education Bill To Get More Coding In Classrooms 88
Paris Climate Deal Adopted 292
Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump 365
Obama Administration To Offer Full Position On Encryption By End of Year 152
Interviews: Ask Attorney and Author Mike Godwin a Question 83
Top Democratic Senator Will Seek Legislation To "Pierce" Through Encryption 556
Theremin's Bug Let Soviets Spy On USA For More Than 7 Years 99
Spotting And Culling Terrorist Groups On Social Media: Pipe Dream, or Possibility? 69
Donald Trump: America Should Consider "Closing the Internet Up In Some Way" 735
Iran's Military Nuclear Program Lasted Longer Than We Thought 134
Congress Votes to Scrap Obama's Clean Power Plan 151
Museum of Political Corruption Planned For New York 97
Israel Meets With Google and YouTube To Discuss Censoring Videos 529
Bill Gates To Headline Paris Climate Talks 93
How Bad of a World Are We Really Living In Right Now? 210
Peter Thiel: We Need a New Atomic Age 366
France Using Emergency Powers To Prevent Climate Change Protests 248
Richard Dawkins Opposes UK Cinemas Censoring Church's Advert Before Star Wars 319
Turkey Downs Allegedly Intruding Russian Fighter Near Syria Border 600
Sabotage Blacks Out Millions In Crimea 156
Florida Group Wants To Make Space a 2016 Presidential Campaign Issue 118
Ex-CIA Director Says Snowden Should Be 'Hanged' For Paris Attacks 486
Donald Trump Obliquely Backs a Federal Database To Track Muslims 608
Georgia Gives Personal Data of 6 Million Voters To Georgia GunOwner Magazine 110
Journalist: NASA Administrator Has Short Memory on Changing Space Policy 87
Democrat Drops MN State House Run After Tweeting 'ISIS Isn't Necessarily Evil' 519
Anonymous Vows Revenge For ISIS Paris Attacks 488
Islamic State Claims Responsibility for Paris Attacks; Death Toll At 127 728
Paper Retracted After Anti-Immigrant Scientist Bans Use of His Software 418
2016 Presidential Candidate Security Investigation 97
Israel 'To Review' Top Appointment After Facebook Controversy 351
Obama Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline 369
Canada Reinstates Mandatory Census, To Delight of Social Scientists 284
"Unsecured Memory Card" Prompts Election Fraud Investigation In Georgia 172
Amazon Warns Employees About 'Million Mask March' On Seattle HQ Today 143
Full Text of Trans-Pacific Partnership Released (Officially, This Time) 247
UK and US Suspect That ISIS Bomb Took Down Flight 9268 289
Anonymous Says US Senators Were 'Incorrectly Outed' As KKK Members 262
Larry Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign, Citing Unfair Debate Rules 309
The Rise of Political Doxing 176
US Law Can't Keep Up With Technology -- and Why That's a Good Thing 187
Real-World Roadblocks To Implementing CISA 31
EU Parliament: Citizens' Rights Still Endangered By Mass Surveillance 53
Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal 674
Non-Binding Resolution: EU States Should Protect Snowden 210
China Ends One-Child Policy 279
UK Government Says App Developers Won't Be Forced To Implement Backdoors 86
Is Buying Cuban Software Legal In the US? The Answer is Hazy 75
Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US 273
Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution 86
Sen. Ron Wyden Explains the Fight Ahead Over CISA 23
Reactions Split On What Canada's Liberal Majority Means For Tech Policy Future 220
Interviews: John McAfee Answers Your Questions About His Presidential Bid 229
House of Representatives Proposal Aims To Regulate Car Privacy 58
Big Data Attempts To Find Meaning In 40 Years of UK Political Debate 44
Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open 470
Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law 219
Bernie Sanders Comes Out Against CISA 211
Electoral System That Lessig Hopes To Reform Is Keeping Him Out of the Debate 239
2016 Election Cycle Led By Billionaire Donors 370
China Arrests Hackers At Behest of US Government 74
EFF: the Final Leaked TPP Text Is All That We Feared 399
US Government Will Not Force Companies To Decode Encrypted Data... For Now 110
EU Court of Justice Declares US-EU Data Transfer Pact Invalid 205
Soon-to-Be US Ed Chief Was Almost FB CEO's Ed Chief 30
Carly Fiorina: I Supplied HP Servers For NSA Snooping 488
Analysis: China-US Hacking Accord Is Tall On Rhetoric, Short On Substance 38
Government Finds New Emails Clinton Did Not Hand Over 348
Don't Worry, That Blimp Isn't Watching You Much 43
Speaker of the House Boehner Announces Resignation 406
Legislation Requiring Tech Industry To Report Terrorist Activity Dropped 30
RIP: Tech Advocate and Obama Advisor Jake Brewer 142
A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers 737
UK Govt's Expensive Mobile Coverage Project Builds Just 8 Masts In 4 Years 75
Some Trump Donors Get Fleeced By 3rd-Party Payment System 113
Technology Colonialism 81
The Campaign To Get Every American Free Money, Every Year 1291
NASA Delays Orion's First Manned Flight Until 2023 115
Interviews: Ask John McAfee About His Presidential Run 157
NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out 263
John McAfee On Why He's Running For President 242
White House Petition To Let Foreign STEM Grads Work Longer In US Hits 100K Signatures 216
John McAfee Pondering Presidential Bid 184
Concern Over India PM's Silicon Valley Visit 80
Larry Lessig Reaches Funding Goal and Is Running For President 281
The Politics of Star Trek 485
Alaska: The Only US State Where Everyone Gets Free Money 284
TPP Scuttles Attempts To Fix Orphan Works 128
The Paris Climate Talks: Negotiating With the Atmosphere 130
Snowden: Clinton's Private Email Server Is a 'Problem' 344
Machine Learning Could Solve Economists' Math Problem 157
Citi Report: Slowing Global Warming Could Save Tens of Trillions of Dollars 248
Where the Tech Industry's Political Donations Are Going 130
Assange Says Harrods Assisting Metro Police in 'Round-the-Clock Vigil' 275
Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages 576
Croatian Party Advocates Government Adoption of Open Source 29
Twitter Blocks API Access For Sites Monitoring Politicians' Deleted Tweets 114
Mostly Theater? Taking Aim At White House 'We the People' Petitions 68
Judge Orders State Dept, FBI To Expand Clinton Email Server Probe 303
Two US Marines Foil Terrorist Attack On Train In France 468
Jeb Bush Comes Out Against Encryption 495
Now Google Must Censor Search Results About "Right To Be Forgotten" Removals 179
Evidence That H-1B Holders Don't Replace US Workers 417
Former Rep. Louis Stokes, the Man Who Saved the Space Station, Dies At Age 90 50
Trump Targets the Abuse of H-1B Visas 492
Virginia Ditches 'America's Worst Voting Machines' 393
Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch 442
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Is Now Chairing Lessig's Presidential Bid 119
Federal Judge Calls BS On Homeland Security's 2008 STEM 'Emergency' 142
Can Cuba Skip Cell Phone Connectivity? 138
The UK's War On Porn: Turning ISPs Into Parents 231
Time Runs Out On Sweden's Sexual Assault Charges Against Julian Assange 226
Clinton Surrendering Email Server/Data To Feds After Top Secret Mail Found 676
Lawrence Lessig Wants To Run For President So He Can Resign 458
Cuba Uses Big Data To Help Tourism, But Their Networks Lack Capacity 60
Congressional Black Caucus Begs Apple For Its 'Trade Secret' Racial Data 337
Internet Search Engines May Be Influencing Elections 67
Reddit Updates Content Policy, Bans More Subreddits 410
TPP Copyright Chapter Leaks: Website Blocking, New Criminal Rules On the Way 258
Microsoft Taps PBS To Advance Its National Talent Strategy With 'Code Trip' 43
Clinton Promises 500 Million New Solar Panels 574
EU May Become a Single Digital Market of 500 Million People 132
The Science and Politics Behind Colony Collapse Disorder; Is the Crisis Over? 174
IT Workers Training Their Foreign Replacements 'Troubling,' Says White House 305
Most Comprehensive Study Yet On Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles 188
Scientology Group Urged Veto of Mental Health Bill 265
America's Technical Debt 165
Iran Has Signed a Nuclear Accord 459
Hillary Clinton Takes Aim At 'Gig Economy' 432
Barney Frank Defends Political Hypocrisy, Game Theory Explains It 191
The Guardian Looks At Hacking Team's Client List, Internal Communications 35
Well-Played: Microsoft Parlays NSF Video 'Remake' Into National CS K-12 Crisis 69
The Rise of the New Crypto War 91
Researcher Who Reported E-voting Vulnerability Targeted By Police Raid in Argentina 116
Cameron Asserts UK Gov't Will Leave No "Safe Space" For Private Communications 260
Pew Survey Documents Gaps Between Public and Scientists 278
Scientist Union's Talks Stall Over Pay 80
Quebec Government May Force ISPs To Block Gambling Websites 60
How Uber Takes Over a City 230
Supreme Court Ruling Supports Same-Sex Marriage 1083
France Could Offer Asylum To Assange, Snowden 213
Judge Orders Dutch Government To Finally Take Action On Climate Promises 242
WikiLeaks: NSA Eavesdropped On the Last Three French Presidents 136
The Presidential Candidate With a Plan To Run the US On 100% Clean Energy 308
Louisiana Governor Vetoes License Plate Reader Bill, Citing Privacy Concerns 131
Mayday PAC's Benjamin Singer Explains How You can Help Reform American Politics (Video) 233
Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election 292
Mauna Kea Telescope Construction Slated To Resume 65
Shuttleworth Loses $20m Battle With S. African Reserve Bank Over Expatriated Funds 117
After Uproar, Disney Cancels Tech Worker Layoffs 229
US Teen Pleads Guilty To Teaching ISIS About Bitcoin Via Twitter 312
Report: Russia and China Crack Encrypted Snowden Files 546
75% of Russia's Satellite Electronics Come From US 127
As Drought Worsens, California Orders Record Water Cuts 599
Trade Bill Fails In the House 413
WA Gov. Sides With Microsoft: Philanthropy-Funded K-12 CS Education Now the Law 166
Wassenaar Treaty Will Hamper Bug Bounties 35
US Army Website Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army 116
Microsoft Will Help Iowa Caucuses Go High-Tech 71
Anti-TPP Website Being Blacklisted 180
Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric 830
Facebook Sued In US Court For Blocking Page In India 100
Senate Passes USA Freedom Act 294
Patriot Act Spy Powers To Expire As Rand Paul Blocks USA Freedom Act Vote 500
Artist Uses 3D Printing To Preserve Artifacts Destroyed By ISIS 73
The Patriot Act May Be Dead For Good 218
Professional Internet Troll Sues Her Former Employer 184
Neil DeGrasse Tyson Urges America To Challenge China To a Space Race 275
A Ph.D Thesis Defense Delayed By Injustice 77 Years 134
Obama Asks Congress To Renew 'Patriot Act' Snooping 389
Clinton Foundation: Kids' Lack of CS Savvy Threatens the US Economy 208
British Politicians Delete Negative Wikipedia Descriptions Before Election 121
EU Drops Plans For Safer Pesticides After Pressure From US 156
Bank of England Accidentally E-mails Top-Secret "Brexit" Plan To the Guardian 396
NSA-Reform Bill Fails In US Senate 135
California Votes To Ban Microbeads 247
WSJ Crowdsources Investigation of Hillary Clinton Emails 231
Battle To Regulate Ridesharing Moves Through States 328
The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties 609
Kim Dotcom Calls Hillary Clinton an "Adversary" of Internet Freedom 276
Canadian Prime Minister To Music Lobby: Here's Your Copyright Term Extension 121
House Science Committee Approves Changes To Space Law 103
House Votes To End Spy Agencies' Bulk Collection of Phone Data 142
Interviews: Fark Founder Drew Curtis Answers Your Questions 45
British Pilots: Poll Data Says Public Wants Strict Rules For Drones 110
FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo 612
Is Facebook Keeping You In a Political Bubble? 179
Export Ban Drives Cuba To Non-US Analytics Software To Boost Tourism 84
Voting With Dollars: Politicians and Their Staffers Roll With Uber 132
Extreme Secrecy Eroding Support For Trans-Pacific Partnership 169
House Panel Holds Hearing On "Politically Driven Science" - Without Scientists 347
Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House 553
Uber Office Raided By Police In China, Accused of Running 'Illegal' Car Business 176
NASA Gets Its Marching Orders: Look Up! Look Out! 179
Bernie Sanders, Presidential Candidate and H-1B Skeptic 395
Native Hawaiian Panel Withdraws Support For World's Largest Telescope 286
NSA Reform Bill Backed By Both Parties Set To Pass House of Representatives 121
US Senate Targets Patent Trolls 56
Tech Credited With Reducing Nigerian Election Death Toll 58
Rand Paul Moves To Block New "Net Neutrality" Rules 438
The United States Just Might Be Iran's Favorite New Nuclear Supplier 164
Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers 636
Interviews: Ask Fark Founder Drew Curtis a Question 127
Pope Attacked By Climate Change Skeptics 703
Officials Say Russian Hackers Read Obama's Unclassified Emails 109
Think Tanks: How a Bill [Gates Agenda] Becomes a Law 165
Buggy Win 95 Code Almost Wrecked Stuxnet Campaign 93
Gen. Petraeus To Be Sentenced To Two Years Probation and Fine 94
Security Companies Accused of Exaggerating Iran's Cyberthreats Against the US 37
House Bill Slashes Research Critical To Cybersecurity 198
Copyright For Sale: What the Sony Docs Say About MPAA Buying Political Influence 163
Gyrocopter Pilot Appears In Court; Judge Bans Him From D.C. 271
'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status 700
Turkish Hackers Target Vatican Website After Pope's Genocide Comment 249
Bolivia Demands Assange Apologize For Deliberately False Leaks To the US 161
Legislation Would Force Radio Stations To Pay Royalties 218
Republicans Introduce a Bill To Overturn Net Neutrality 441
Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid 676
Would-Be Bomber Arrested In Kansas; Planned Suicide Attack on Ft. Riley 297
Massive Lincoln Archive Goes Live On 150th Anniversary of His Assassination 16
US Blocks Intel From Selling Xeon Chips To Chinese Supercomputer Projects 229
FTC Creates Office Dedicated To "Algorithmic Transparency" 75
Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) 489
French TV Network TV5Monde Targeted In 'Pro-ISIS' Cyberattack 71
Senate Draft of No Child Left Behind Act Draft Makes CS a 'Core' Subject 216
US Started Keeping Secret Records of International Telephone Calls In 1992 81
Obama Says Climate Change Is Harming Americans' Health 304
Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights 653
After Anti-Donation Executive Order, Bitcoin Donations For Snowden Jump 289
UK's Tories Promise To Enact Age Limits For Viewing Online Porn 187
Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" 538
Al Franken Urges FBI To Prosecute "Revenge Porn" 306
Why the Framework Nuclear Agreement With Iran Is Good For Both Sides 383

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