Tunisia is considering a new form of national ID card, which would be used for unspecified forms of tracking and surveillance.

Even nastier, a citizen would be punished for trying to decrypt the data in per own ID card.

Will Self: "Are humans evolving beyond the need to tell stories?"

Reading the article, I think it is only speculation that this change (which affects a large fraction of young people but not all) is a pathway to any new capability. It seems more likely to me that it is a pathway to cognitive discapacity.

As a new corruption scandal directly implicates coup-president Temer, nearly all the major parties in Brazil are supporting a bill to protect everyone in Congress from corruption accusations.

300 US churches have recently offered sanctuary to non-citizens without visas.

"Help the downtrodden" is the good side of Christianity. The bad side shows in Trump supporters those who wish to persecute someone.

Keep in mind that Obama has deported over 2 million unauthorized immigrants, in some cases because they committed minor crimes decades ago.

If Trump wants to adopt a harsher policy, what will he do? Deport jaywalkers?

Economic modelling says that a revenue-neutral carbon tax in the US would create jobs and economic growth, and increase the income of working people, as well as accelerating the reduction in CO₂ emissions.

The crucial point is that the tax increases every year, and investors know that it will increase every year. This means that the pressure on investors to avoid future fossil fuel use is very strong.

The model for this study was revenue-neutral, but I don't think that a carbon tax has to be revenue-neutral. Perhaps the state should keep some of the money to spend on useful things such as infrastructure; that too puts the money back into circulation.