More income inequality in a country leads to less happiness for the whole population — not only for the poor.

Look at the US: right-wing politicians use the generally shared difficulties to divide people and lead them to blame scapegoats.

A bill being considered in New York State would require portable phones to have spy back doors built in.

France may prohibit strong encryption.

If that happens, I may be unable ever to go to France again.

Writers Join Worldwide Action to Protest Palestinian Poet's Death Sentence in [Salafi Arabia].

I call that country Salafi Arabia to remind people that it has been spending millions of dollars a year for decades to impose its cruel, strict and vicious version of Islam on the Muslim world. One of the consequences is the existence of PISSI and other Islamic fundamentalist organizations.

China's leading human rights lawyers face years in prison for "subversion" for trying to implement China's human rights law.