500 million Chinese lose an average of 5 years of life due to burning coal.

I think that some of the coal they are burning is exported from the US.

With Windows 8.1, Microsoft is moving step by step closer to forcing every user to make a Microsoft service account. And it will spy on users' searches, Ubuntu-style.

We could call it Windows Prism Edition.

1/4 of rivers and lakes in South Minnesota are so polluted by agricultural nitrogen fertilizer runoff that they could not be used for drinking water.

Four Contemptible Examples of Corporate Tax Avoidance.

Nick Turse tried to interview US soldiers at a base in Qatar (which in the Obama fantasy world is not called a base). He got a runaround, and on returning to the US was harassed with accusations that he was a jihadi.