The benefit of increased trade from TAFTA is projected to amount to three cents per person per day.

Of course, that benefit won't be evenly divided. It will be for the rich. The rest will get only the fallout from everything else in the treaty, whose name stands for Turn All Freedom To Ashes.

Nina Paley on limiting mass immigration … of sperm.

Once phone call records are saved and made available for later examination, governments examine them for the smallest of reasons.

John Kiriakou explains what he had to go through to get medical treatment when he broke his finger while in prison.

How gratis-to-play games psychologically manipulate players into paying over and over to have a chance of winning.

There is nothing exploitative in a chess set, a deck of cards, or an ordinary board game; the company that sells them doesn't manipulate the game you play so as to pressure or trick you into buying more of its product. Those are the standard of comparison by which we can see if some other game is exploitative. When you see how these companies fool people into spending money, I hope you will decide never to deal with them.