General el-Sisi is running for president of Egypt, but TV stations are taking his critics off the air.

The US and UK, by distorting the picture of their surveillance and claiming it is compatible with democracy and human rights, provide a precedent for governments even less democratic to make similar false claims.

Malta may hold a referendum to end the licensed hunting of birds migrating north to breed.

When a bird species is being wiped out, typically many causes are at work. As in the case of global heating, if we want to preserve what is threatened, we must reject arguments of the form, "Let us keep endangering it — tackle some other threat instead."

The callous rich of Palo Alto want to ban homeless people from sleeping in cars.

Is there anyone reading this from Palo Alto who would like to launch a street campaign to shame those rich people? If there is a business that supports this law, it would be interesting to make signs condemning them and invite homeless people to picket that business during the day.

A worker in the UK was fired for stating religious disapproval of homosexuality.

I think people should be free to state their disapproval of anything at all, and other people should be free to ignore those views.