The Shi'ite victors of Mosul are building up sectarian hostility of the sort that helped PISSI get in.

The next episode of Shi'ite-Sunni strife will not be quite like PISSI, but it is likely to be very bad. Shame that no one has the leadership to lead Iraq away from that.

[PISSI] May Be on Its Knees But It Will Rise Again If We Don't Break the Cycle.

The US is developing a self-perpetuating class divide between the upper middle class and those below. The children of upper-middle-class parents receive such advantages in upbringing that they can usually claim all the advantages afterward.

Social mobility is important, but offering a decent life even to poor people is even more important. That would also reduce somewhat the perceived importance of making sure your children don't end up with somewhat reduced social position -- it would not doom them to poverty that strikes upper-middle-class parents as horrible.

The troll's voter suppression commission published the email addresses of the people who wrote to object to its plan to collect and publish private information about all US voters.

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After Desiree Fairooz was ejected for laughing at Sessions, she shouted in anger, and was then convicted of disorderly conduct for that. Now a judge has tossed out the conviction because the prosecutor told the jury that laughing alone was grounds for convicting her.

California's Governor Brown advocates strong long-term CO2 targets, but the measures he proposes are not strong enough to achieve them.