Obama has ceased trying to block the unlimited sale of emergency contraception drugs.

Republican pressure is making Obama start to talk about changes to the PAT RIOT Act. Ironic, given their previous support for various kinds of government surveillance.

However, this will not be enough to do the job. We need to make it possible to be an anonymous whistleblower.

The Listening Tree, by NSA.

In reality, it's not trees that have microphones, it's buses, taxis and lampposts. For practical purposes, in a city, that makes little difference — what this cartoon warns about is already true.

A UK judge disregarded the leaked evidence that the Chagos marine reserve was created to keep the Chagos islanders from returning, then ruled that this couldn't possibly be true.

Unemployed Britons, who were illegally forced to do unpaid work and won compensation in court, and then were denied this compensation by a retroactive law, are suing to overturn that law.