Russia plans to ban Tor, demonstrating how essential Tor is for resisting tyranny.

If the state has grounds to suspect that a person is committing crimes, it has many other ways to investigate, including planting microphones where that person lives and works. These take some effort, however, which is as it should be.

Technology to record all conversations could turn life into something unrecognizable.

US citizens: sign this petition against appointing Larry Summers as head of the Federal Reserve.

This is a different petition; if you signed the other, please sign this too.

US citizens: call on Herakles Farms not to cut down 300 square miles of rainforest in Cameroon, which is habitat for chimpanzees and other threatened species.

America's cheering millions of high school graduates toward college every year, feeding them into the debt grinder under the banner of increased opportunity, when full disclosure would require admitting that there isn't a hell of a lot waiting for them on the other side, where the middle class has nearly vanished and full employment is going the way of the dodo.