Aaron Swartz

Big stories need human stakes. ”

The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. ”

With the death of bin Laden, it's finally time for Congress to bring back the pre-9-11 legal norm, before we decided it was okay to toss out our civil liberties if the 'bad guys' were scary enough. ”

We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for. ”

What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy. ”

At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause. ”

Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act. ”