HoustonEuler

If Snowden is an American whistleblower, shouldn't you only release documents that serve the interest of the American public?

For example, it very well might be in the American interest to spy on the Brazilian government, and that's well within NSA's legal mandate. How do you justify releasing those documents?

The link between available credit (in the forms of loans and grants) and college tuition is not a "conservative talking point." Not only is the link intuitive -- very few services stays the same price when its consumers demand and ability to pay for it increases -- but there are is plenty of research confirming it.

Here is a study by the New York Federal Reserve suggesting that:

We next estimate the response of sticker-price tuition, enrollments, and institutional grants to changes in institution-specific aid maximums, which are again measured as the interaction of exposures and program cap changes. The point estimates indicate that increases in institution-specific subsidized loan maximums lead to a sticker-price increase of about 60 cents on the dollar, and that increases in the unsubsidized loan and Pell Grant the per-student maximums are associated with sticker-price increases of 15 cents on the dollar and 40 cents on the dollar, respectively. All of these effects are highly significant and are consistent with the Bennett Hypothesis.

The study examines public universities, contrary to your claim, and there is more research inside their paper with similar results.

The policies that you advocate are an inefficient subsidy for students seeking an education, but they're very favorable to the bloated higher education administration.

I'm an American citizen who thinks it made sense that the American government was spying the governments of Germany and Brazil. That's what our spying agency should do to get an advantage, and that's what everyone expects spying agencies to do. Why did you choose to reveal those particular secrets?

Of course many of the operations went way further than just spying on governments, but why aren't foreign governments fair game?