9. Inside the World’s Biggest Prison with Yahoo! the Stool Pigeon and Comrade Orwell

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

—First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

No one should ever confuse James Madison and Mao Zedong. Of these two “founding fathers,” Mao laid the cornerstone for what has become the world’s biggest police state and prison. In contrast, by introducing the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution, James Madison helped guarantee every right and freedom now regularly and ruthlessly denied ...

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