Sahil Kapur

Key components in the USA Patriot Act are set to expire at the end of the year, but President Barack Obama is seeking to extend them, reversing his stark opposition in the past to the same provisions.
“The president’s reversal on Patriot Act reform is a major travesty,” said Michelle Richardson, Legislative Counsel for the leading [...]

The main factor uniting Republican-leaning voters today is fierce opposition to President Obama and Congressional Democrats — but less than half believe their own party is moving in the “right direction,” a new Washington Post survey finds.
Roughly three in four of the conservatives polled said Obama doesn’t stand for “traditional American values,” and nearly half [...]

“An Aloha call is starting . This is for a fire at 2WT,” paged a Morgan Stanley employee at 8:50 AM on September 11, 2001, four minutes after the first plane crashed into the World Trade Center. It was the first pager message about the horrific attacks, according to CBS News.
Over half a million intercepted [...]

WASHINGTON — Lou Dobbs’ swift exit from CNN after criticism of his coverage of immigration may be more reflective of the times than first thought, according to a survey released with little fanfare on Monday.
Americans are largely supportive of a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants, a new report by the Pew Research Center concluded.
Sixty-three [...]

Update: Police break in at UC Berkeley as talks break down. Saw off doors, prepare to make arrests.
Police arrested 52 students protesting a tuition hike Thursday at the University of California-Davis and held them in jail overnight without food. One was reportedly beaten by police, a source close to the incident tells Raw Story.
The [...]