Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.

- Ryan Shapiro

Democracy can't function without an informed citizenry.

- Ryan Shapiro

I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in the nam…

- Ryan Shapiro

Democracy cannot meaningfully function without an informed citizenry, and such a citizenry is impossible without broad public access to information a…

- Ryan Shapiro

As Harvard historian of science Peter Galison has demonstrated, the universe of classified knowledge now far exceeds the universe of unclassified kno…

- Ryan Shapiro

The US intelligence community is deeply allergic to the Freedom of Information Act. It is fair to say that the intelligence community does nearly eve…

- Ryan Shapiro

I am calling on all citizens with access to unreleased records pertaining to illegal, unconstitutional, or immoral government activities to return th…

- Ryan Shapiro

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

- Ryan Shapiro