Chris Anderson only wanted his cows back. In June 2011, three heifer/calf pairs absconded from Anderson’s Nelson County, North Dakota, ranch and wandered onto acreage owned by Rodney Brossart. The long-faced patriarch of a close-knit family of “exceedingly hard-working farmers and ranchers, who prefer to limit their contact with governmental actors,” according to his attorney, … Continue reading Be Grateful: North Dakota’s Surveillance Culture

It goes without saying in 2016 that the networked economy and mobile communications technology have profoundly changed how the news media contributes to democracy. Print journalism especially—newspapers, magazines—has seen more upheaval than perhaps any other industry this century. While many large and middling newspapers and magazine publishers have achieved a level of stability in their … Continue reading Arms to Call