An artificial media hype bubble about refugees collecting in Calais to push their way into the UK has vanished, illustrating how the media can focus attention on distractions by making them look big.

Alabama passed a law requiring voters to have state ID, then closed the offices where most blacks live.

Sanders is raising a lot of campaign funds in small donations, not from billionaires — but we need campaign finance reform anyway.

Self-driving cars offer tremendous advantages. We must fight to prevent them from imposing dangers, such as total surveillance of the passengers, and proprietary software for the driver or the passengers.

We must prevent them from being operated as a Guber-style taxi system if, as Guber does, it requires users to run nonfree software to call a car and to pay for the ride.

We must insist that, if you buy a car, you can change the software in it.

A court says Birmingham thugs violated students constitutional rights when pepper-spraying them for arguing.

The vicious cruel intentions of the thugs are proved by the way they acted afterward to maximize the students' suffering.