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In Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom, out on Jan. 30 from Basic Books, Internet policy researcher and advocate Rebecca MacKinnon dissects the complicated issues surrounding civil rights, democracy, and the rise of internet institutions like Google, Facebook, and Twitter—institutions which aren’t always looking out for the best interests of their users. The Tip Sheet caught up with the busy author, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan think tank New America Foundation, to discuss the latest political news from the cyber-frontier.

... False Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy, Dean Baker; Best Care Anywhere, Second Edition: Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours, Phillip Longman; Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry, Todd Farley; ...

And she trots out a variety of studies and prominent journalism and media analysts—from Michael Kinsley and Clay Shirky to Robert Wright, Lee Rainie, and Yochai Benkler—to challenge the proliferation of arguments claiming "digital culture makes you ...

Earlier this week Penguin Press announced its acqusition of Steve Coll's currently untitled book that will expand on his 2004 work, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2000. ...

... Yes, says "net neutrality" defender Tim Wu, who argues in his timely new book, The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, that we now stand at the edge of a historical slippery slope, a step away from a slide into another period of major corporate dominance, ...

A longtime journalist and CNN terrorism analyst, Peter Bergen is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden. ...

In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart analyzes a century's worth of ill-fated American military adventures. (Reviews, April 5)

Your crowning example of American hubris is the Iraq War. What fueled that hubris?

A century of unwise American military adventures is probed in this perceptive study of foreign policy over-reach. Daily Beast and Time contributor Beinart (The Good Fight) highlights three examples of Washington's overconfidence: Woodrow Wilson's “hubris of reason”: the belief that reason, not force, could govern the world; the Kennedy-Johnson administrations' “hubris of toughness” during the Vietnam War; and George W. Bush's “hubris of dominance” in launching the Iraq War....

Then there's the April book from Eliza Griswold, The 10th Parallel, in which the author investigates why so many violent conflicts have erupted near this ...

An interview with Eric Liu, co-author with Nick Hanauer of The True Patriot, which was published by Sasquatch in January 2008.

Publishers Weekly: How would you describe The True Patriot?