Due to the concentration of the seed market, for some plants it is hard for farmers to find seed without neonicotinoids.

Several destructive proposals the US are pushing in the TPP, some in copyright and some in patents.

While all these proposals are bad, they have nothing in common aside from that. Copyright law and patent law are totally different and ought to be treated as separate issues.

The term "intellectual property" is harmful because it encourages combining those two issues; I wish the TPP's critics knew better than to repeat the framing that supports the TPP's unjust aims.

The Texas voter ID law was very effective: it blocked 9% of the voters in a Hispanic-majority district.

The "Robin Hood Foundation" is run by a bunch of hedge fund managers and billionaires. They lobby to continue an absurd tax break, and give to the charity about 2% of what they get from that tax break.

A year after Michael Brown was killed by a thug, society is more ready to criticize thugs, but Ferguson is not at peace.