Now that thugs have killer robots to use, we have to consider the danger that their use will become attractive and frequent.

Does concern about that eventuality seem like borrowing trouble? In 1970 it might have seemed silly to worry that SWAT teams would be used 50,000 times a year, and often against suspects not known to be armed.

North Carolina's civil rights campaign, the Moral Mondays, has succeeded so well that it elected a Democrat as governor.

Its success is helped by appealing to universal goals rather than a specific identity — like the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

A minority that is the target of prejudice and bigotry is entitled to demand better treatment, but it is hard to get majority support for changes by setting yourself against the majority. A campaign for universal values, such as justice for all (so that the minority is no longer an exception) is more likely to succeed.

The Moral Mondays could win the election for governor because that runs by simple popular vote. But it can't win back the state legislature, because that election is rigged.

A future climate lawsuit against Washington state parallels the federal future climate lawsuit.

Many of the plaintiffs, now teenagers, could live long enough to see the years when climate mayhem kills lots of Americans, and be killed by it.

Ecuador is acting to forcibly shut down Acción Ecológica, which opposes oil drilling in the Amazon.

Craig Murray says that he received the leaked Democratic Party emails, from an intermediary who told him that they were leaked by an insider.