If companies know all about your purchasing practices, and can offer you prices based on that knowledge, they will stop competing. They will each arrive at the same price to offer you.

Texas Governor Perry called a special session of the state legislature to try again to pass the anti-abortion bill.

Turkey threatens to block Twitter unless it submits to Turkish censorship.

It is ironic that "insulting Ataturk" is cited as a reason for Turkish government censorship, since President Erdogan is the worst insult to Ataturk that there could ever be.

This example shows that German censorship of Nazis sets a dangerous precedent for other censorship. I detest the views of Nazis — they would kill me just because of my ancestry — but censoring any political views leads to spreading repression.

A report suggests that people across Russia dislike their government, but the Moscow-centered opposition failed because it lacked a connection with people elsewhere in Russia.

The article seems to present this as a personal failing of the opposition activists. I think that criticism is unfair; they can only use what they have. However, this is something that activists in Russia should think about.

Deregulation of logging in part of Australia could wipe out endangered species.