Don't expect to see former Sprint Nextel (S) CEO Gary Forsee back in the wireless scene any time soon: The long-time telecom exec will be named presid...
The Hill | Manu Raju | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Tuesday he would seek to extend a controversial interim wiretapping law through February to avoid the ea...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
How can any legislative branch make laws then grant immunity from breaking laws on the grounds of national security? After all, what is "national security" if not law enforcement?
Barry Yourgrau | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
Susan Sontag was right. And right on. Almost innocent, in a way, seeing where we've come to since.
Cliff Schecter | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
Just as you would have thought, you really can best a faux-cowboy who's about as popular as amoebic dysentery.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics
Reid may be going out of his way to deny that Dodd and his allies had any effect on what happened yesterday, and the Washington Post may be fooled, but nobody else is.
Craig Newmark | Posted 12.16.2007 | Media
We do need to help those in the intelligence community that are honest and competent, not the ones ordered to produce fake reports.
Art Brodsky | Posted 12.11.2007 | Media
Under their philosophy, the less the FCC has to do with things like the Internet and text messaging, the better.
Craig Newmark | Posted 11.28.2007 | Politics
Remember that Reagan fought a much more dangerous enemy than al Qaeda without resorting to breaking the law like this.
John Seery | Posted 11.05.2007 | Politics
Ashcroft is effectively asking for a newly codified and prospective national policy of granting virtual carte blanche to the Bush administration in its increasingly privatized surveillance tactics.
Jane Hamsher | Posted 10.26.2007 | Politics
If as Clinton says she accepts lobbyist money and yet it doesn't influence her vote, wouldn't now be a nice time to prove it?
Laura Scher | Posted 10.25.2007 | Business
Now that the issues have gone from thwarting competition to spying, I hope the public will hang up on the telecom companies' on-going campaign to buy the law that suits them best.
The New York Times | By ERIC LICHTBLAU and SCOTT SHANE | Posted 10.22.2007 | Business
Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while s...
Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 10.22.2007 | Politics
Why would a Democratic-controlled Congress protect the telecom industry? You think a steady flow of cash might have something to do with it?
Shelly Palmer | Posted 10.19.2007 | Media
Washington recently woke up and realized that Feb. 17, 2009 was less then two years away. This wouldn't matter except that it's the day the government has chosen to be the end of analog television.
Taylor Marsh | Posted 10.19.2007 | Politics
Reid's tenure as majority leader has been nothing but an exercise in timidity, which is about a lot more than not having the votes to pass legislation.
Timothy Karr | Posted 10.11.2007 | Media
The phone companies' lobbyists have teamed with Bush to strong arm Congress into granting full immunity for a disturbing array of illegal and unconstitutional acts.
Pachacutec | Posted 10.10.2007 | Business
The telecom industry has bought congress, written anti-competitive, anti-consumer regulations into law, and its services get worse and worse.
Art Brodsky | Posted 10.10.2007 | Media
The candidates don't need to get into the weeds on the Internet issues. A simple recognition that the Internet exists and that there are issues of control might be good enough.
Timothy Karr | Posted 10.03.2007 | Media
Despite Verizon's and AT&T's best spin, another message is getting through: Phone companies can't be trusted to protect free speech.
Timothy Karr | Posted 10.01.2007 | Media
These multi-billion dollar network giants are telling their Internet and cell phone customers this: If you want "your world delivered," you better play nice with the phone companies.
Timothy Karr | Posted 09.26.2007 | Media
The truth is that whenever given the choice, phone companies will opt to discriminate against content they don't like.
Art Brodsky | Posted 09.06.2007 | Media
The British, and many other countries, are for the most part following policies we abandoned in the last couple of years. We need to bring those policies back.
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Silicon Valley Insider | Dan Frommer | Posted 12.20.2007 | Business