**Shin Bet: The World’s Most Efficient Neighborhood Watch with a License to Kill** While the rest of us were busy arguing about privacy settings on social media, Israel’s Shin Bet has been quietly perfecting the art of knowing what you had for breakfast before you’ve finished digesting it. Welcome to the international gold standard of…
The Fourth Amendment: America’s Most Exported Paranoia By Dave’s Foreign Correspondent-at-Large (currently self-quarantining in a non-extradition country) The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution—protecting the citizenry from “unreasonable searches and seizures”—reads like a quaint postcard from 1791. On the front: powdered wigs, candlelit parlors, a polite knock before His Majesty’s agents rummage through your snuffbox….
The Guardian: A Small Island Paper That Grew Up to Lecture the Planet By Our Correspondent in a Café with Suspiciously Fast Wi-Fi, Somewhere between Gatwick and Geopolitics LONDON—In most countries, a newspaper that still calls itself “The Manchester Guardian” on its masthead would be dismissed as regional nostalgia, the print equivalent of a pub…
