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Nancy Scola

Nancy Scola is a New York City-based political writer whose work has appeared in the American Prospect, the Atlantic, Columbia Journalism Review, New York Magazine and Salon. On Twitter, she's @nancyscola.

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Prisoners’ crippling phone bills

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Demonstrators protest against the healthcare bill outside the Capitol in Washington on Dec. 15, 2009. (Kevin Lamarque / Reuters)

Why Republicans welcome birth control politics

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Internet activists protest against the international copyright agreement knon as ACTA, (AP)

Protest drags down Europe’s SOPA

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Foiled by the internet (Yuri Gripas / Reuters)

Reid bows to online protest

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Rep. Darrell Issa, Web defender? (AP/Susan Walsh)

Left and right, Congress resists the Stop Online Piracy Act

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Twitter takes sides on the Internet’s future

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(iamanuj.com)

Congress seeks to tame the Internet

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Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is sworn in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011, prior to testifying before the Senate Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights subcommittee hearing to answer whether Google has used its dominance unfairly as it has grown from an Internet search engine expanding into broader services and markets. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) (J. Scott Applewhite)

Senators clearly don’t understand Google

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Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., threatened with sanctions over spreading NSA slides among Congressional staffers (John Raoux)

Alan Grayson’s plan: Break the rules and survive

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