Canada's new Prime Minister Trudeau advocates the absurd idea of transitioning to a low-carbon economy through long-term investments in tar sands pipelines.

If such a transition does occur, those investments will turn out to be wasteful — so whoever owns them will fight like hell to prevent any such transition.

Regarding freedom of speech, Clinton and Trump are both lousy.

CNN is trying to legitimize the Ku Klux Klan.

Egyptian thugs arrested journalist Sabry Anwar, but won't say what they did with him. This raises suspicions that they tortured him to death.

Increased world-scale digital interconnectedness creates unanticipated vulnerabilities that can lead to disaster.

I recommend the book Normal Accidents, by Charles Perrow, for a picture of how even much simpler systems can cause disasters because they are too complex for their operators to understand.