Obama gave Shell full approval to create oil spills in the Chukchi Sea and convert it into the Upchukchi Sea.

They must figure that floating ice will cease to be a danger once they have melted it all.

Phone companies around the world are inserting tracking headers into unencrypted (http) browsing requests sent by mobile phones.

They can't insert these into https requests, only unencrypted http requests.

All "smartphones" contain malicious nonfree software, which is part of why I would not have one. But if you insist on doing web browsing from one, don't ever visit an unencrypted page with it.

Working for Amazon makes staff physically and mentally ill.

Militants in Bangladesh are accused of murdering two of the four assassinated secularist bloggers.

A tiny fraction (one in 3000) of families in public housing have had substantial increases in income since moving in, but have not moved out. The Washington Post tried to make a big scandal about this.

What the many poor urban Americans need is a lot more public or affordable housing in their cities — not the eviction of those .03%.