US citizens: urge your congresscritter to oppose several bills intended to attack wildlife and wetlands.

US citizens: call on Obama to stop South Dakota from taking Lakota children away from their relatives on trivial excuses.

I think the word "kidnapping" used in the petition is incorrect, but I signed anyway because I think the substance is valid.

Google, Facebook and other companies have released statistics showing at most 100,000 users have been subject to FISA orders and national security letters.

That's a small fraction of the users — but if they include journalists, whistleblowers and dissidents, democracy is in danger.

What matters is not how many people's data the state has looked at but how many people's data the state could look at when it wishes.

Is Freeing a Duck "Terrorism"?

I only partly agree with the idea of animal rights, but I do support human rights, and labeling animal rights activism as "terrorism" clearly violates them. I don't have to agree with them to support their right to campaign for their views.

To build the Olympic games venue, Russia destroyed forests and wetlands and "replaced" them with ecologically worthless artificial substitutes.