In Britain, children go to school sick because their parents can't afford to miss work.

These are the same poor people that right-wingers call "lazy scroungers". If you systematically pour a sea of obligations on people, while cutting out what they stand on, by and by some of them will sink.

The Center for Democracy & Technology reported to the UN how Australian mass surveillance violates human rights norms.

That was before Australia passed a law imposing even more surveillance.

Unfettered Religious Freedom Really Does Mean the Freedom to Do Harm.

We may be headed for a "sofalarity", in which people spend so much time in fantasy worlds, that are presented as vividly as reality, that they care less about reality.

Iraqi Sunnis are changing their names so as not to be persecuted by Shi'ites.