AT&T Inc said on Thursday a company it hired to handle the cybercast of a live concert by U.S. rock band Pearl Jam erroneously omitted lyrics criticizing U.S. President George Bush that were in a song performed by the band.
“AT&T’s actions strike at the heart of the public’s concerns over the power that corporations have […]

Why would the largely privately-funded U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum want to restrict access to historical archives in contradiction to its stated purpose to exist in the first place? If the records support the long-told official story, one would think that the the museum would want the widest possible distributed access to the actual historical […]

Some argue that individual votes should be public for all to see. Others argue that making the votes public exposes the voters to intimidation or even physical harm.
Related issues are whether legislators’ votes should be public combined with publicizing legislators’ contributors. The thinking is that legislators would not want to appear to be […]

The House of Representatives is about to pass a bill that authorizes public balloting for union elections. On its face, the bill appears to favor openness.
Opponents cite secret ballots as one of the elements of a free democratic society and the only way to prevent voter intimidation. There is also an argument […]