The Republican letter to Iran crowns a 6-year Republican career of sabotaging the US and taking state programs hostage.

Americans, don't use tax preparation companies, says a former employee of one.

Companies are pushing school software applications into classrooms with no checks about whether they respect students' privacy, or even whether they work.

The article notices only the tip of the iceberg. These programs are proprietary software, and teaching students to use proprietary software is wrong. If they send any data about a student to a company, even the student's name, that violates the student's privacy.

Mexico effectively offered $20 million to movie companies for changes in the story of the next James Bond film.

The article does not say explicitly that the movie companies accepted the deal, but that appears to be the case.

The US military has a similar practice: it cooperates only with films that will present a pro-military point of view, thus discouraging the making of films that criticize the US military or US wars.

Afghan performance artist Kubra Khademi walked around Kabul wearing steel armor fashioned to look like a sexy woman.

The curses and death threats she received demonstrate the arrogance of misogynous men. Misogyny is found in many parts of the world, but Islamic countries are the worst extreme; men claim the right to murder women and feel no shame about it.

This is why we must fight and defeat PISSI and other Islamists — though indiscriminate use of armed force is not a likely way to win.