"It's not that we don't want you to have these things," conservatives say, "It's just that they'll ruin the economy and bring about widespread catastrophe."
Liliana Segura and Spencer Ackerman ask if this is just more security theater designed to get us to give up our civil liberties, and Mark Green and Malia Lazu on the Mass Election.
Americans voted for change and are getting frustrated with the lack of it, but our guests have both written about the powerful forces holding the status quo in place.
