Investment advisers are telling the US government that requiring them to serve their clients' interest would be disastrous, and telling their stockholders that they would cope with it just fine.

Ted Cruz used to understand that torture is wrong, and said so. But when he felt pressured to compete with Trump to endorse torture, he did so by redefining torture so narrowly that not much would qualify.

Trump and Cruz are promoting the false assumption that torture is an effective way to get information from a suspect, as well as the immoral idea that it is justified.

The NSA merged the department for defending computer security with the department for breaking security.

If Martin Luther King Jr were alive, he would probably support Sanders.

MySpace has been bought — to mine its user data.

Even if a company has a firm policy about not mistreating its users (unlikely), that is unlikely to bind whatever company acquires it. It also won't bind crackers that steal the data, or Big Brother armed with a national security letter.

The best thing is not to let the company get any data about you. I do my purchases anonymously.