In 2008, Hossein Derakhshan's blog was so influential that Iran imprisoned for it. Released in 2014, he encountered an Internet in which Facebook and Instagram discourage people from looking at any other web sites. Real discussion has been replaced by trivia videos.

US thugs shot and killed at least 28 people this year who were holding pellet guns or BB guns.

I wonder what fraction of them were black. I suspect thugs are more likely to take a pellet gun for a real gun when it is held by a black.

Is Flawed Terrorism Research Driving Flawed Counterterrorism Policies?

A Chronicle of Woe : US Policing Culture From Iraq and Vietnam to Jon Burge's Chicago.

The excuses offered to the grand jury for the shooting of Tamir Rice beg questions that were apparently ignored — for instance, why didn't they stay a little further away and take a second to understand the situation.