…pumped at high rates without concern about directly disturbing the smelt or other endangered fish in the delta. Figure 4: The proposed delta tunnels. In late March, the Bay-Delta Imported…

…counts.[1] The UK Law Commission’s recent consultation document on the Protection of Official Data suggests that maximum sentences for unauthorized disclosure under the Official Secrets Act ought to be increased…

A squat gray building of only eight stories. Over the course of 2014 and 2015, The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) slowly discovered—and even more slowly disclosed—that it had…

…arrangements of publics, experts, and infrastructures. Consider Andrew Lakoff’s study of water management and the protection of an endangered species in California—a small fish called the delta smelt. At one…

…had long been locked and his office, a tidy nook behind a wall of paned merchandise cabinets, was where he sipped Rhum Agricole Martinique. The rum was a treat, reserved…

…scope (Peiris, de Jong, and Guan 2007). The 1997 outbreak showed that “preparedness” – a range of activities including stockpiling vaccines and designing simulations of a human-to-human transmission (Lakoff 2006)…