The Keystone XL pipeline is facing increasing opposition and increasing legal defeats.

I am not convinced that Obama really has decided to block it. If he had, why hasn't he done so? I think he is waiting for 2015 to approve it.

An organization that pretends to represent US small business owners does right-wing lobbying for the Koch brothers and big insurance companies without telling its members.

The AARP acts similarly — it lobbies for right-wing causes that its members, who are Americans old enough to retire, might not approve of. This is why I refuse to join the AARP.

By Expelling Isabella Acevedo, the [UK] Home Office Tears Another Family Apart.

The UK government is stretching and even breaking its own immigration laws to deport exactly the people it should be most willing to allow to stay, for no reason except trying to prove how harsh it is to migrants.

Russia wants Apple to provide secret source code.

This would show Russia how to extract data from an iThing just as Apple does.

Canadian Charities Will Survive Chilling Audits Of "Political Activities".