The cost to society of mass incarceration is much larger than the cost of running prisons.

Over half of former prisoners remain unemployed five years later. They'd need a conscience of iron to resist crime when it's the only opportunity they will ever get.

US wages are still not increasing, belying claims of a "recovery".

China is demanding foreign companies build back doors into digital products. That injustice in China offers a lesson to Americans about why it would be an injustice in the US.

The article uses the vague confused term "intellectual property", which can mean so many unrelated things that in this context it has no clear meaning at all.

Facebook will start making real use of surveillance data gained via Like buttons, even about people who are not useds of Facebook.

The EFF campaign proposes a partial solution. In this case, a full solution is available: use a browser such as IceCat which blocks Like buttons and the other similar third-party tracking schemes.

Hungarian thugs beat up seven journalists covering the movement of refugees.