The UK has accused two passengers of "endangering an aircraft", but the alleged crime consisted of making empty threats with no real substance.

It is legitimate to punish threats of violence, but empty threats are not a real danger and it is dishonest to claim that they "endangered" anything.

The Swedish government is cutting taxes on the rich and hurting the poor.

Rioting is unpleasant. Under ordinary circumstances, it is not justified. However, the wrong that is being done to these people is much worse than the wrong they did. We must focus on ending the deeper wrong, the original wrong.

The euro zone's next plan is to attack the rights of European workers.

In other words, they want to get rid of the laws that make Europe a better a place to live, for most people, than the US.

The UK government wants to block access to web sites because of the views they express.

Texas is on the way to pass a law requiring the state to get a warrant before it can look at phone location data.

While this law would be a step forward, it is far from adequate, because it is simply intolerable for anyone to accumulate a complete dossier about your movements regardless of what limits are placed on subsequent access to the data. When the state wants to attack dissidents, journalists and whistleblowers, it will get a warrant.