How the US meddled in the 1996 Russian elections.

A study shows that the natural gas extraction already planned for the US would block the US from achieving its CO₂ reduction goals, which are too weak to avoid global disaster anyway.

The executives of more-or-less privatized UK schools are living a lavish life at the expense of their students.

Privatization tends to do this, and everyone knows it. The politicians that advocate privatization pretend to endorse mysterious "efficiency" claims that turn out to be bogus. The way privatization really generates income for owners and bosses is at the expense of their workers and the public.

Pokémon Go is a harbinger of the monopoly capitalism proclaimed by monster Peter Thiel, which companies such as Google try to practice.

The article exaggerates when it claims that images on a phone screen and reality will be indistinguishable. Most people will relearn how to distinguish, because various forms of crime and misadventure will teach them.

Meanwhile, some of us know better than to play such a game. I would never even consider running the Pokémon Go game, since it is proprietary software which means it tramples the freedom of whoever uses it. I would never even consider running the proprietary operating systems that it runs on, such as iOS and Android.

And I would never even consider tolerating the surveillance which that game does, or the surveillance done by any portable phone.

If those injustices were fixed, I'd have no reason of principle to refuse to the game. But I'd still have better things to do with my time. Don't you? Isn't there some worthy cause you would like to work for, if only you had time? Well, here's how to get the time: do it instead of some other hobby.

Olympic athletes and spectators have a very low chance of catching Zika, and need not be worried. Brazilians, and other tourists, are at more risk.

It is good that the Olympics probably won't significantly spread Zika. But they do several other kinds of lasting harm to the places where they are held.