In the UK, any joke that refers to a group of people can be labeled as a "hate incident".

That's where it leads when people are prosecuted for expressing opinions. Even odious opinions must not be censored.

US Inequality Is Simply a Function of Political Power.

Thus, no policy is likely to benefit the non-rich, while the rich keep taking ever more away from us.

Russia is installing NSA-like Internet surveillance facilities. Sochi, where the Olympic games will be held, is getting the new facilities first.

The Olympic games have a pattern of imposing surveillance that does not go away afterward.

Campaigning for single-payer universal health care in the US.

The UK's zero-tolerance policy on racist statements has collided with soccer fans that insist on chanting "Yid army" as an expression of pro-semitism.

I call it "zero-tolerance" because it resembles, in its gratuitous harshness, the "zero-tolerance" policies of US schools that form the entry valve of the school-to-prison pipeline.