Taiwanese Internet users protested and blocked plans for a SOPA-like law.

They ought to demand that the government abolish the "intellectual property" office. Any activity based on that propaganda term tends naturally to turn out bad. And why allow any public funds to be spent on pushing for unjust laws?

I do not say all the various laws some refer to as "intellectual property" are bad through and through. Since these laws are totally unrelated, it is unlikely that anything can be validly said about all of them, except that they are all laws.

Jordan has imposed censorship on news sites.

The US is still somewhat better than Egypt: many Americans have called Bush a war criminal and we have not been charged with a crime for that. On the other hand, journalists and their sources are being attacked over and over.

Some vital US government programs undermined by the sequester that you might not have thought of.

Vigorous efforts might just succeed in saving the Schaus swallowtail butterfly from extinction.

By the second half of this century, governments struggling with failing agriculture won't have resources to put into protecting species or habitats.