Trevor Timm
Trevor Timm is a Guardian US columnist and executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a non-profit that supports and defends journalism dedicated to transparency and accountability. Follow him on Twitter: @TrevorTimm
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James Comey has been abusing his power for yearsWe shouldn’t be surprised at the FBI director’s intervention in the presidential campaign. He has a track record of dubious decisions
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First Thiel, now the Trumps: how billionaires threaten free speechLawsuits can destroy media organizations. Whatever you think of the stories, the prospect of journalists being silenced by a wealthy elite is deeply troubling
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The US is promoting war crimes in YemenThe humanitarian disaster there is, by some measures, greater than that in Syria. Why is Obama continuing to enable the Saudi bombing campaign?
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People who film police violence are citizen journalists. We stand with themThe harassment of men and women who record violent incidents involving police is an appalling abuse of first amendment rights
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The US is bombing Libya again. It's a too-familiar vicious cycleThe latest airstrikes against Isis are happening because the last offensive created a power vacuum. There’s a good bet that will happen this time too
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The rush to blame Russia for the DNC email hack is prematureThere is some circumstantial evidence that the hack may have originated in Russia, but there are many questions that haven’t been resolved
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Is Hillary Clinton a neocon?Many Republicans have endorsed her. It could be because GOP stalwarts are terrified of Donald Trump. Or it could be that her policies align with theirs
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As quietly as possible, the government is renewing its assault on your privacyHaving failed to secure an anti-encryption bill, the FBI and justice department are now engaged in a multi-pronged attack on all sorts of other privacy rights
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The 'solutions' to the Orlando shooting that will only make things worsePoliticians on all sides have wasted little time in proposing a range of counter-productive initiatives, from expanding surveillance to bombing foreign countries
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If Omar Mateen were white, we'd have a different Orlando shooting narrativeAs soon as a disturbed American invokes ‘Isis’, the discussion around pathology and guns halts and it’s immediately considered an act of war
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The Republican party is not dead. Far from itThe obituaries that were written in haste when Donald Trump took over were naive. The past few weeks make that abundantly clear
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Five things people should stop saying about Bernie SandersEstablishment Democrats want him to stop criticizing Clinton, they want him to lay off the party, they want him to drop out. Here’s why they’re utterly wrong
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Obama is bullish on war, no matter how you spin itThe president has reached the dubious milestone of being at war longer than any of his predecessors. And the conflicts aren’t ending anytime soon
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If Facebook hides conservative news, a Senate inquiry is a bad ideaThe Senate commerce committee’s inquiry into Facebook’s editorial decisions is a threat to their first amendment rights
Think Trump's scary now? Obama is leaving him with broad war powers