Please stop (mis)qouting this. It means almost the exact opposite of the point people tend to try to make with it.
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/02/390245038/ben-franklins-famous...
Having tax authority is essential for the government, and it shouldn't give it up for the sake of temporary defence money; privacy is essential to citizens, and shouldn't be given up for temporary protection from terrorists.
Prescriptivist linguistics is pretty silly though -- words mean what people use them fo
1-stories glorifying transgender 9-year-olds is the type of thing that is now somehow standard on NPR: www.npr.org/2017/03/03/518206326/transgender-boy-finds-his-bros-and-himself-at-camp