The Battle Over Sangin Should Teach the West Some Vital Military Lessons. And political lessons, too, about "attempting cultural change on a management consultant timeline."

I still think the US might have achieved a good outcome in Afghanistan if it had refrained from attacking and destroying Iraq.

China seems to plan to expel a French journalist whose articles in France have criticized the regime.

In 1992, Sweden adopted a school voucher system. Since then the Swedish educational system has become more unequal, and less effective overall.

The US-Korea "free trade" agreement, if evaluated in the conventional terms of exports and imports, has been a big loss for US exports and US employment.

This is on top of the harm that the treaty does to both countries by undermining democracy.

Google's Gmail and other connected services create psychological profiles of every user — and all the people they communicate with by email. A slowly progressing lawsuit claims that this violates California law.

You can opt out of this by changing to some other mail service, running your own mail server, and/or encrypting the text of your emails with the GNU Privacy Guard.