We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.

At Cheney's initiative, the United States stripped terror suspects of long-established rights under domestic and international law, building a new legal edifice under exclusive White House ownership.

Companies that receive government information demands have to obey the law, but they often have room for maneuver. They scarcely ever use it.

Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

Drug manufacturers could afford to sell AIDS drugs in Africa at virtually any discount. The companies said they did not do so because Africa lacked the requisite infrastructure.