Personalized "news" feeds are atomizing society and facilitating well-funded pseudoscience such as global heating denialism.

Foreign domestic workers in Qatar are subject to slave-like conditions.

This happens in the UK too, and it's unacceptable in either place.

Right-wing extremists have been arrested for plotting an attack on the US government.

I have no more sympathy for these right-wing militants than for Islamists, but in both cases we must beware of letting the state manufacture plots to prosecute people who would otherwise never have done any harm.

Ireland faces a lot of embarrassment for imprisoning anti-military protester Margaretta D'Arcy.

The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, which was supposed to hold nuclear waste and never ever leak, is leaking.

I'm not sure that this leak is dangerous, but until people understand how it happened, there is no way of guessing how much more may leak.