A study suggests that telling a lie tends to desensitize the brain so that it feels less guilty about further lies.

Imagine what repeated "testilying" does to thugs.

Car companies convinced the European Commission to increase pollution limits. This pollution kills hundreds of thousands of people in Europe each year.

The European Commission constantly tells people to surrender freedom to reduce the very small danger of terrorism; but when it comes to the big danger of air pollution, it doesn't dare tell car companies to give up anything. That's because it respects the car companies more than it does human beings.

Philippine Senator de Lima calls on the International Criminal Court to investigate President Duterte's murder campaign. She says that she receives death threats and is afraid she will be murdered.

Duterte said his murder campaign is aimed at drug dealers. You might think that the rights of drug dealers are unimportant; but even if you think they deserve to be prosecuted and convicted, that doesn't mean they have no rights at all.

Once a state decides that certain people have no rights at all, it isn't a big step to take the same stance obout other people. If it was drug dealers last month, it can be senators this month, dissidents next month, and anyone that gets in the president's way a month after that.

Proposed Miami Beach Ordinance Would Take First Step Toward Limiting Surveillance State.

Noam Chomsky on the Perils of Market-Driven Education: it undermines the goal of an educated populace.