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The federal government narrowly avoided disaster on Sunday night. After missing the initial deadline to approve the budget for the next fiscal year, Congress finally agreed on a broad spending …

From sophisticated satellites that vacuum up virtually every form of telecommunications to high speed computers that can break even the most sophisticated encryption, there is very little a person can …

New revelations about the U.S. government’s spying program have revealed that the government may have been spying on the telephone data of tens of millions of Americans for nearly a …

The landscape of things that intrude on your life has quietly changed over the last 30 years. Since the 1980s the focus has been on government intrusion but there are …

A new Gallup survey out today shows that confidence in our government has reached historic lows. The most recent numbers say 7% have confidence in Congress, while 29% feel confident …

Bitcoin prices dipped in the wake of an announcement last week that the US Marshal’s Office was putting $17.5 million worth of Bitcoins seized from Silk Road up for auction. …

There’s understandable concern in some quarters about the poor savings habits of Millennials — the generation now in their early 20s and 30s.  Of eligible workers under 25, only 43% …

It’s difficult not to commiserate with Abe Gorelick.  In the April 3, 2014 New York Times profile of him in its Business Day section, the Boston ex-marketing executive is portrayed …

Bloomberg News editor-at-large in Asia Ben Richardson has quit Michael Bloomberg’s business-oriented news agency, in protest of his editors burying an investigative piece on Chinese elites. According to the New York Times, …

Many of us don’t trust the government to always tell us the truth. There are inconvenient facts left out about the cause of wars, double-talk about the economy, and a …