A federal appeals judge charged for allegedly smashing a stranger’s glasses over a parking space is exactly the kind of small story that feeds a big fear: that those who sit in judgment over ordinary Americans do not live by the same standards they...

As Washington battles over renewing a secret spy law, both parties are quietly fighting to keep a powerful surveillance tool that many Americans on the left and right already fear is being used against them.Story SnapshotSection 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act lets...