Politics Stories for 2013

New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution 1010
Citizen Science: Who Makes the Rules? 189
Hearing Shows How 'Military-Style' Raid On Calif. Power Station Spooks U.S. 396
Prime Minister Wiretapped — Vast Corruption Upending Turkey's Government 123
Overstock.com Plans To Accept Bitcoin 202
Goodbye, California? Tim Draper Proposes a 6-Way Split 489
US Spying Costs Boeing Military Jet Deal With Brazil 439
Why Charles Stross Wants Bitcoin To Die In a Fire 691
GM's CEO Rejects Repaying Feds for Bailout Losses 356
North Korea Erases Executed Official From the Internet 276
Disqus Bug Deanonymizes Commenters 151
Google Opens Asian Data Centers But Shuns China and India 75
Patent Troll Bill Clears House With Huge Majority 138
Nelson Mandela Dead At 95 311
Tesla Faces Off Against Car Dealers In Another State: Ohio 214
UK Gov't Plans To Censor "Extremist" Websites Via Orders To ISPs 208
Singapore & South Korea Help NSA Tap Undersea Cables 137
China Creates Air Defence Zone Over Japan-Controlled Islands, Issues War Threat 519
Make Way For "Mutant" Crops As GM Foods Face Opposition 194
Indonesian Politicians Plan To Quiz Snowden Following Visit By Russians 121
FEC Will Not Allow Bitcoin Campaign Contributions 49
A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP 1030
Software Patent Reform Stalls Thanks To IBM and Microsoft Lobbying 239
How Perl and R Reveal the United States' Isolation In the TPP Negotiations 152
Sen. Chuck Schumer Seeks To Extend Ban On 'Undetectable' 3D-Printed Guns 550
Fukushima Disaster Leads Japan To Backpedal On Emissions Pledge 274
Can the US Be Weaned Off Ethanol? 330
Bitcoin Hits $400 Ahead of Senate Hearing On Virtual Currency 276
There Would Be No Iranian Nuclear Talks If Not For Fracking 236
Where Does America's Fear Come From? 926
Bitcoin Donations To US Campaigns Might Soon Be Allowed 144
Spooked By His Sci Fi, FBI Looked Into Asimov As Possible Communist Tipster 190
US FDA Moves To Ban Trans Fat 520
Republican Proposal Puts 'National Interest' Requirement On US Science Agency 382
Feinstein and Rogers: No Clemency For Snowden 504
Shutdown Illustrates How Fast US Gov't Can Update Its Websites 77
4 Prominent Scientists Say Renewables Aren't Enough, Urge Support For Nuclear 776
Snowden Seeks International Help Against US Espionage Charges 351
Comcast Donates Heavily To Defeat Mayor Who Is Bringing Gigabit Fiber To Seattle 356
Arizona Commissioner Probes Utility's Secret Funding of Anti-Solar Campaign 207
UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations 431
A Look at the Koch Brothers Dark-Money Network 406
Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study 640
German Report: Obama Aware of Merkel Spying Since 2010 280
Antigua Looks Closer To Legal "Piracy" of US-Copyrighted Works 327
How Safe Is Cycling? 947
MEPs Vote To Suspend Data Sharing With US 180
Finally, a Bill To End Patent Trolling 162
Would-Be Tesla Owners Jump Through Hoops To Skirt Wacky Texas Rules 470
PM Calls Facebook Irresponsible For Allowing Beheading Clips 201
The Cost of the US Government Shutdown To Science 355
A Ray of Hope For Americans and Scientific Literacy? 668
US Government Shutdown Ends 999
David Cameron Wants the Guardian Investigated Over Snowden Files 279
Silicon Valley Stays Quiet As Washington Implodes 299
Patriot Act Author Introduces Bill To Limit Use of Patriot Act 189
China Arrests Anti-Corruption Blogger 113
Cost of Healthcare.gov: $634 Million — So Far 497
Azerbaijan Election Results Released Before Voting Had Even Started 266
How Entrepreneurs Overturned California's Retroactive Tax On Startup Founders 105
Chemical Experts Begin Destroying Syria's Chemical Arsenal 86
Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? 1144
Scientists Boycott NASA Conference Because of Ban On Chinese Participants 283
Shots Fired At US Capitol 608
Congress Reaches Agreement ... On Helium 255
U.S. Government: Sorry, We're Closed 1532
Saudi Cleric Pummeled On Twitter For Claiming Driving Damages Women's Ovaries 408
Declassified NSA Docs Shed Light On Cold War (And Modern) Operations 83
Protesters Are Dodging Sudan's Internet Shutdown With a Phone-Powered Crowdmap 7
DEA Argues Oregonians Have No Protected Privacy Interest In Prescription Records 455
President of Brazil Lashes Out At NSA Espionage Programs In Speech To UN 260
Imprisoned Physicist Honored For Refusing To Work On Iran's Nuclear Program 138
Trans-Pacific Cable Plans Mired In US-China Geopolitical Rivalry 162
Conflict Minerals and Cell Phones 136
Russian Government Takes Over Country's 289-year Old Scientific Academy 192
Open Source, Open World 76
Satellite Images Suggest N. Korea Has Restarted Small Nuclear Reactor 121
UK Gov't Outlines Plans To Privatize Royal Mail 220
How Car Dealership Lobbyists Successfully Banned Tesla Motors From Texas 688
Syrian Gov't Agrees To Russian Chem-Weapon Turnover Plan 362
German Federal Police Helicopter Circles US Consulate 239
Arctic Ice Cap Rebounds From 2012 — But Does That Matter? 400
Australia Elects Libertarian-Leaning Senator (By Accident) 343
400 Million Chinese Cannot Speak Mandarin 562
New Jersey Congressman Seeks To Bar NSA Backdoors In Encryption 200
US Intercepts Iranian Order For Attack On US Embassy In Iraq 433
On Eve Of Election, Australia's Conservatives Announce Mandated Filtering Policy 87
Obama Admin Says It Won't Fight Looser Marijuana Laws, With Conditions 526
A Closer Look At the Syrian Electronic Army 47
US Forces Ready To Strike Syria If Ordered 918
Report: Snowden Stayed At Russian Consulate While In Hong Kong 107
Wikileaks Party Making Questionable Deals In Attempt To Win Senate Seat 162
Obama, Romney Data Scientists Strike Out On Their Own 120
The College-Loan Scandal 827
US, Germany To Enter No-Spying Agreement 209
Next Up: the Jamming Wars 209
Twitter Buzz As an Election Predictor 55
Medical Costs Bankrupt Patients; It's the Computer's Fault 637
Court: NRC In Violation For Not Ruling On Yucca Mountain 258
Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA 569
Photocopying Michelle Obama's Diary, Just In Case 218
Federal Judge Rules NYC "Stop and Frisk" Violated Rights 308
Obama on Surveillance: "We Can and Must Be More Transparent" 537
Is New York City Ready For Digital Voting? 93
Snowden Gave 15,000 Documents to Glenn Greenwald; Obama Cancels Russia Summit 531
Zimbabweans Hit By Cyber Attacks During Election 63
Google's Science Fellows Challenge the Company's Fund-Raising For Senator Inhofe 140
Obama Praises Amazon At One of Its Controversial Warehouses 435
Bahrain Activists Battered By IP Tracking Attacks 48
Lawmakers Who Upheld NSA Phone Spying Received Double the Defense Industry Cash 284
Several Western Govts. Ban Lenovo Equipment From Sensitive Networks 410
Man Formerly Charged With Rigging Student Ballot Exposed As Labor Official 96
NSA Still Funded To Spy On US Phone Records 362
New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens 216
Former Student Gets Year In Prison For College President Election Fraud 274
Whistleblowing IT Director Fired By FL State Attorney 569
E-Voting Source Code Made Public In Estonia 88
Google Raises Campaign Funds For Climate Change Denier 365
DHS Chief Janet Napolitano Resigns 192
House Democrats Propose National Park On the Moon 255
Obamacare Software Glitch Will Limit Penalties Charged To Smokers 490
According To YouGov Poll, Snowden Support Declining Among Americans 658
Snowden Offered Asylum By Venezuelan President 380
How Old Is the Average Country? 375
Egyptian President Overthrown, Constitution Suspended 413
Bolivian President's Plane 'Rerouted Over Snowden Suspicions' 621
Obamacare Employer Mandate Delayed Until After Congressional Elections 600
Edward Snowden Files For Political Asylum In Russia 447
FWD.us Remixes the Statue of Liberty Greeting 160
More Details Emerge On How the US Is Bugging Its European Allies 442
Immigration Bill Passes the Senate, Includes More H-1B Visas 274
TN Man Indicted For Romney Blackmail Attempt: Wanted $1M In Bitcoins 92
Supreme Court Overturns Defense of Marriage Act 1073
Obama Reveals Climate Change Plan 577
Chinese Media Calls For Boycott of Cisco 216
Analyzing Congress's Multiple Approaches To Patent Reform 58
Obama's Climate Plans Face Long Fight 229
Data Miners Liken Obama Voters To Caesars Gamblers 166
BT Chief To Become British Government Minister 47
One Year Since Assange Took Refuge in Ecuadorian Embassy 541
Nicaragua Gives Chinese Firm Contract To Build Alternative To Panama Canal 323
The Free State Project, One Decade Later 701
Scientists Explain Why Chairman of House Committee On Science Is Wrong 476
What Charles G. Koch Can Teach Us About Campaign Finance Data 238
The NSA: Never Not Watching 568
White House Announces Reforms Targeting Patent Trolls 124
In France, a Showcase of What Can Go Wrong With Online Voting 177
Turkish PM: "To Me, Social Media Is the Worst Menace To Society." 418
Activist Admits To Bugging US Senate Minority Leader 247
'Smart Gun' Firm Wants You To Fund Its Prototype 558
Iranian Hackers Probe US Infrastructure Targets 203
White House: Use Metric If You Want, We Don't Care 1145
WIPO Panel Says Ron Paul Guilty of Reverse Domain Name Hijacking 303
Ask Slashdot: How To Determine If a Video Has Been Faked? 237
The Canadian Government's War On Science 474
Trade Group: US Software Developer Wages Fell 2% Last Year 237
Syrian Electronic Army Hits Financial Times Sites, Feeds 24
Pirate Bay Co-founder Peter Sunde Running For European Parliament 58
Did Internet Sales Tax Backers Bribe Congress? (Video) 317
No New S-300 Air-Defense System To Syria Says Russia — But Maybe Old Ones 188
California Lawmaker Wants 3-D Printers To Be Regulated 856
IRS Admits Targeting Conservative Groups During 2012 Election 719
John McCain Working On Legislation For 'a La Carte' TV Channel Packages 614
How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion 91
San Francisco Abandons Mobile Phone Radiation Labels 132
US Senate Passes Internet Tax Bill 69 To 27 678
Syria Buys Dell PCs Despite Sanctions 72
Paul's Call To Abolish the TSA, One Year Later 353
Defense Distributed Has 3D-Printed an Entire Gun 712
Google Formally Puts Palestine On Virtual Map 338
Repeal of Louisiana Science Education Act Rejected 318
Variably Sunny: SCOTUS Allows Local FOIA Restrictions 86
Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks Guardian Twitter Feeds 42
SOPA Creator Now In Charge of NSF Grants 307
CISPA Seems Dead In the US Senate 76
British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg 'Kills' Snoopers Charter 47
RCMP Says Terror Plot Against Canadian Trains Thwarted 170
Former Diplomat Slams Facebook For Inaction On Fake Pages 164
Silicon Valley Firms Want To Nix Calif. Internet Privacy Bill 110
Senate To Vote On Internet Sales Tax (For Real This Time) 326
Ask Slashdot: What Planks Would You Want In a Platform of a Political Party? 694
CISPA Passes US House, Despite Privacy Shortcomings and Promised Veto 231
Rep. Mike Rogers Dismisses CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeter On the Internet" 222
Canadian Official Escorted From House For Others' Facebook Comments 205
Ricin Tainted Letter Sent to Senator and Possibly the President 461
Obama Administration Threatens CISPA Veto, EFF Urges Action 106
U.S. Senate's Big Immigration Bill Seeks Centralized Database For H-1B Jobs 251
U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Receives $2 Billion From Japanese Banks 185
KEI Works to Make the World a Better Place in Many Ways (Video) 39
"Choice Blindness" Can Transform Conservatives Into Liberals - and Vice Versa 542
Zuckerberg Lobbies For More Liberal Immigration Policies 484
North Korean Missile Raised To Firing Position, Says US Official 636
Iran Plans To Launch an 'Islamic Google Earth' 181
Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 539
"The Kissinger Cables": WikiLeaks Releases 1.7M Historical Records 199
Anonymous' "OpIsrael" Has Little Impact 136
Hatebase Tries To Scan For Precursors of Genocide In Language 190
The Activists Who Bring Security To the Oppressed 33
The RFP and IT Logistics For Washington's "Pot Czar" 117
WikiLeaks Party Launching This Week 52
Cyber-Terrorists Attacking U.S. Banks Are Well-Funded 83
NASA Asteroid Capture Mission To Be Proposed In 2014 Budget 106
PlanetIQ's Plan: Swap US Weather Sats For Private Ones 128
Massachusetts May Try To Tax the Cloud 172
Will Legitimacy Spoil Bitcoin? 490
FCC Chair Genachowski Resigns; What Effect on Net Regulation? 42
'Energy Beet' Power Is Coming To America 238
US Senate Passes National Internet Sales Tax Mandate 297
Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? 482
Political Pressure Pushes NASA Technical Reports Offline 140
Internet Sales Tax Vote This Week In US Senate 434
Declassified LBJ Tapes Accuse Richard Nixon of Treason 536
CIA To Hand Over Drone Program To Pentagon? 142
Possible Chemical Weapons Use In Syria 164
Cubans Evade Censorship By Exchanging Flash Drives 171
Internet Defense League To Be Deployed Against CISPA 71
Obama Wants To Fund Clean Energy Research With Oil & Gas Funds 409
US To Deploy Ballistic Missile Interceptors In Response To North Korean Threats 266
If You're a Foreigner Using GPS In China, You Could Be a Spy 219
Australian PM Targets Imported IT Workers 224
Obama Administration To Allow All Spy Agencies To Scour Americans' Finances 405
Defcad.com Wants To Be the Google of 3D-Printable Guns 225
North Korea Kills Phone Line, 1953 Armistice; Kim Jong Un's Funds Found In China 330
SXSW: Nate Silver Discusses Data Bias, the Strangeness of Fame 136
Mass. Bill Would Put Privacy Squeeze on Cloud Apps For Schools 95
Is Daylight Saving Time Worth Saving? 646
North Korea Threatens US With Preemptive Nuclear Strike 727
Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil 693
The Pirate Bay's 'Move' To Korea Was a Prank 142
Shooting Yourself In the Foot, 21st Century Style 172
Texas Declares War On Robots 387
China Says It Is the Target of US Hack Attacks 242
DoJ Admits Aaron Swartz's Prosecution Was Political 326
Pirate Bay Shifts Connections From Sweden To Ease Heat on Pirate Party 96
Gubernatorial Candidate Speaks Out Against CAS 121
Lessons From the Papal Conclave About Election Security 183
U.S. Reps Chu and Coble Start Intellectual Property Caucus 150
White House Tells Agencies To Increase Access to Fed-Funded Research 121
There Is Plenty To Cut At the Pentagon 484
Derek Khanna Answers Your Questions 167
Swedish Pirate Party Threatened for Hosting the Pirate Bay 164
Is "Left" Vs. "Right" Hard-coded Into Your Brain? 758
ATLAS Meteor Tracking System Gets $5M NASA Funding 104
Hardware Hacker Proposes Patent and Education Reform To Obama 134
The US Redrawn As 50 Equally Populated States 642
The IIPA Copyright Demands For Canada and Spain 113
Congress Takes Up Online Sales Tax 297
Lawmakers Say CFAA Is Too Hard On Hackers 154
The Malware Industrial Complex 32
Lew Rockwell: Ron Paul Not Using the State or UN to Control RonPaul.Com 232

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