David Miranda, schedule 7 and the danger that all reporters now face  —  As the events in a Heathrow transit lounge - and the Guardian offices - have shown, the threat to journalism is real and growing  —  In a private viewing cinema in Soho last week I caught myself letting fly …

David Miranda: 'They said I would be put in jail if I didn't co-operate'  —  Partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald gives his first interview on nine-hour interrogation at Heathrow airport  —  David Miranda, the partner of the Guardian journalist who broke stories of mass surveillance …

Stupid Is A Strategy  —  Bill Keller has a strong, stinging column about Republican attacks on the entirely praiseworthy, up to now bipartisan effort to create a Common Core curriculum.  But I think we need to say more than this: … First of all, right-wing leaders don't strike me as being at all stupid …

Business groups aren't too happy about Tea Party mania they helped unleash  —  GOP-aligned business groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Federation of Independent Business, and others played a key role in helping elect dozens of conservatives to the House and Senate.

Ted Cruz at Princeton: Creepy, Sometimes Well Liked, and Exactly the Same  —  Can a master debater who wore a paisley bathrobe to creepily stroll by the women's wing of the dorm be the next president?  Patricia Murphy talks to Ted Cruz's college roommates about his stint at Princeton.