One step forward, two steps back for media freedom (in the US).

NSA: permission to spy in Germany.

Hawaii offer homeless people a gratis ticket to the US mainland. The danger is that thugs may bully people into leaving.

If this were applied only to people with an invitation to live with someone in another state, or whose last domicile was in another state, it might do more good than harm.

Today's Apple Pegatron sweatshops are even nastier than the Foxconn sweatshops it used before.

Just because you're not pregnant, should that make it ok to require you to work 11 hours a day, 6 days a week? Apple is culpable if its products are made by people working a longer workweek than is allowed in the US.

Egypt's government has formally reactivated repressive units of thugs.