The best writing of the week, November 3

Why not take a break from the fire hose of Twitter and RSS and check out our weekly roundup of essential writing from around the web about technology, culture, media, and the future? The Guardian put together a comprehensive, interactive guide to what we know about the NSA's surveillance programs, with interviews including Thomas Drake, Glenn Greenwald, Ron Wyden, Jeremy Scahill, and more. But along with these technologies came an extension in the NSA’s reach few in the early 1990s could have imagined.

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