A secret UK court ruled that GCHQ acted illegally when it got information about Britons from Prism via the NSA.

A Missouri boy's family pretended to kidnap him, to teach him to distrust strangers. Now they face real charges of kidnaping.

Scaring a child this way may be a bad idea, but it is not kidnaping. To label it so is willful blindness on the state's part. "Why do we exaggerate the charges? Because we can."

Canada's supreme court said that people are entitled to get help from doctors when they rationally choose to die.

The article presumes, but does not say, that the ruling is limited to people whose natural death is expected to come soon anyway. It does not seem right to exclude people doomed to a life of paralysis or incommunicado from this right.

Britons are proud of the NHS, but the government made its assaults on the NHS so complex that most Britons did not recognize them as sabotage. And the press did not help them understand this.

Oxfam warned the US and UK governments that closing the companies that send money to Somalia would lead to disaster there.

When a region is full of people who can't survive except with money sent by expatriates, its population is unsustainably high. It seems to me that we should make sure they receive plenty of birth control supplies along with the money.