Obama postponed (probably cancelled) a summit meeting with Putin because negotiations on many issues have stalled.

Obama took advantage of this to smear Snowden again.

Businesses may one day demand to monitor employees' medical readings all the time. ("Big data" means "massive surveillance".)

Of course, this monitoring will be "optional", except for people who would mind being unemployed.

We should prohibit the practice before it gets started, because limiting mass surveillance is more important than any other pertinent goals.

Our carbon emissions are gradually locking in substantial future rises in sea level that will eventually inundate large parts of many coastal cities.

This gives a new meaning to the concept of an "underwater mortgage".

British Columbia has a carbon tax, and gives the money to people with low incomes.

Thus, the poor are not shafted by the tax, but they do feel pressure to conserve, just as everyone else does.

This is the sensible way to use the market to push society away from burning fossil fuels.

US citizens: call for raising the minimum wage to $10.50 an hour.