Courts and legislatures in the US have stacked the rules in favor of companies that sue debtors. In some places, debtors face great obstacles to have a chance to present their cases.

When the US government modifies web sites to identify the people that access them, it can identify 1000 bystanders to find 100 people who are sought.

It is no coincidence that this arose in the search for people downloading illegal images. The making of those images, if it involved real sexual abuse of real children, deserves to be prosecuted, but prosecuting people for downloading something leads to tyranny.

Perhaps these images were really images of children's being abused. However, in practice "child pornography" includes 17-year-olds having sex, or 20-year-olds that look younger and are getting paid.

Deciding how to fix Bitcoin's scaling problem involves a political question: which of its goals are most important.

Stopping home-grown US terrorism depends on convincing American Muslims to trust the thugs.

It won't be easy to convince thugs to start acting like police officers.

Ethiopia had exiled dissident Andargachew Tsege kidnapped and put him on death row. He has been denied access to a lawyer or his family.