Democratic presidential hopeful Lincoln Chafee calls for pardoning Snowden and restricting general surveillance.

If this were the principal issue, I would support him; but I think defeating the power of the plutocrats is the most important political issue.

Greenpeace had reason to return the land it used to block a new runway for Heathrow airport: the new plan for another runway is in a different place and that plot of land would not block it.

In the US today, college teachers can be fired merely for speaking profanity.

Israel used tasers and beatings on the personnel on the Gaza aid boat Marianne.

The arguments against multiple marriage (i.e., polyamorous families) are similar to the arguments against same-sex marriage that the US has rejected.

One traditional reason, in patriarchal society, why most men opposed polygamy (which always took the form of multiple wives for one man) was that it implied some men could not have wives. In effect, banning polygamy was a measure to improve equality among men.

But nowadays, as rich men have many ways to have multiple lovers and women have equality at least in principle, I don't think this ban achieves its goal very much any more.