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Atlantic.com: An Eye Without an 'I': Justice and the Rise of Automated Surveillance by Ross Andersen:

Over the past decade, video surveillance has exploded. In many cities, we might as well have drones hovering overhead, given how closely we're being watched, perpetually, by the thousands of cameras perched on buildings. So far, people's inability to watch the millions of hours of video had limited its uses. But video is data and computers are being set to work mining that information on behalf of governments and anyone else who can afford the software. And this kind of automated surveillance is only going to get more sophisticated as a result of new technologies like iris scanners and gait analysis.

Yet little thought has been given to the ethics of perpetually recording vast swaths of the world. What, exactly, are we getting ourselves into?

How has a character as static as Superman—who since 1938 has worn the same outfit, worked the same job, even kept the same haircut—remained popular through so many different eras? Will Leitch reviews Larry Tye's "Superman."

Novelist Richard Zimler on tales of outcasts and misfits, from Philip Roth's novel "I Married a Communist" to Aharon Appelfeld's "The Story of a Life," a memoir about hiding from the Nazis as a child during World War II.

Mac Slavo | CFR proposes that the U.S. Army be used to plan, command, and carry out (with the help of civilian law enforcement) domestic police missions.

Obama is the Flock of Seagulls of political oratory.

Kurt Nimmo | Plan to impose a dictatorship on America now approaching its zenith.

A reporter interrupted President Obama as he explained his plans to stop deporting many children of illegal immigrants.

Telegraph.co.uk | Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, "mastermind behind 9/11," was denied request to wear military-style camouflage clothes to court.

As Colorado is in the Mountain Time Zone, I am now eight hours away from where I sat at this exact moment one week ago when I was in Paris with The Lad. Woe to me. Let's take a quick look at how we're doing in our place among what is poetically, if incorrectly, called "the family of nations." 2012-06-15T13:20:00-04:002012-06-17T01:10:05ZRich Galen

Does "character" count? How about the more archaic notion of "reputation"? Not in the Obama administration, now standing tall behind what in Washington parlance is called the "troubled" nomination of Brett McGurk to be U.S. ambassador to Iraq.2012-06-15T12:19:00-04:002012-06-17T01:10:05ZDiana West

With her unbridled hostility towards Israel, the EU's foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton provides us with an abject lesson in what happens when a government places its emotional aspirations above its national interests.2012-06-15T11:53:00-04:002012-06-17T01:10:05ZCaroline Glick

Vice President Joe Biden is almost casual about ending marriage. It’s “inevitable,” he says. He thinks it’s not such a big deal. But it is a big deal. Recognizing same-sex couplings as marriages will mean the end of marriage. That’s because saying yes to two men or two women marrying opens the door to polygamy. 2012-06-15T10:19:00-04:002012-06-17T01:10:05ZKen Blackwell

Do children raised by same-sex couples do just as well as children raised by married moms and dads?2012-06-15T10:18:00-04:002012-06-16T10:10:03ZMaggie Gallagher

On Monday The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza launched a voyage of the imagination --an extremely well sourced essay on what Team Obama thinks a second term would look like.2012-06-15T09:37:00-04:002012-06-16T02:40:03ZHugh Hewitt

While the liberal media obsesses with jobs losses from Bain Capital’s private equity investments, it conveniently ignores the mounting economic cost of President Obama’s command and control energy policy that has destroyed billions of dollars in investment capital in the coal and renewable energy sectors.2012-06-15T00:01:00-04:002012-06-16T02:40:03ZTom Borelli

London Telegraph | Consideration to take equity in state-owned banks to help Dublin return to bond markets and avoid a second bailout next year.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A body found in thick brush Friday morning is believed to be that of a special forces soldier-turned-trauma surgeon who was the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the killing of his ex-girlfriend at a hospital, police said.

Authorities had been searching for 49-year-old Dr. Timothy Jorden ...

London Telegraph | Osborne unveils £140bn scheme to kick-start stagnant economy.

A.M. Freyed | UN seeding high-tech “company towns” around the world.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers have scheduled a Friday budget vote on their plan to balance a $15.7 billion deficit as they run up against a constitutional deadline or risk losing their pay.

With Gov. Jerry Brown refusing to sign off on their plan, Democratic leaders said they would work ...