When Is a Campaign Not a Campaign? When It's a Super Pac.

In the UK, some courageous young people raised as Muslims dare to reject their religion, braving pressure from family as well as potential threats from fanatics.

We scorn the Church of Scientology for systematically making members ostracize ex-members; Islam deserves the same scorn for that.

For Muslims to have a place in a free society, they must learn to fully respect the right to have other views, including the right to leave their religion, just as every other belief system must.

This is what we should demand of Muslims, rather than a "reformation".

Facebook wants to give millions of poor people access to a small part of the internet .

The danger of such censorship (and tracking, since it doesn't include access to a VPN) is more important than any good of giving people internet access sooner. (They will get access by and by.)

The name "heartbleed" was coined as a PR move by a company closely related to Microsoft .

Apparently the PR goal was to direct special public attention to one of the many bugs discovered each year in various programs, free or nonfree.

Russian repression has promoted the spread of HIV infection.