Regarding freedom of speech, Clinton and Trump are both lousy.

CNN is trying to legitimize the Ku Klux Klan.

Egyptian thugs arrested journalist Sabry Anwar, but won't say what they did with him. This raises suspicions that they tortured him to death.

Increased world-scale digital interconnectedness creates unanticipated vulnerabilities that can lead to disaster.

I recommend the book Normal Accidents, by Charles Perrow, for a picture of how even much simpler systems can cause disasters because they are too complex for their operators to understand.

January and February set new records for seasonally adjusted heat.

It's almost entirely due to global heating, not El Niño.

The Northern hemisphere is currently 2C hotter than what used to be normal.