*Texas schools are surveilling students online, often without their knowledge.* School-provided computers read students' email.

The article adds "or consent" to the first sentence, but I don't think that consent can excuse a system of massive surveillance.

What if a school finds that a student plans to travel out of state for an abortion. Will that make the school vulnerable to lawsuits by the dozen? Will the school protect itself by reporting her and sticking her with a baby that will keep her poor for life?

Greg Palast says that the lasting blackout of much of New Orleans was the result of malingering by the power company, Entergy. He says that the company profits from the losses caused by hurricanes, so it has stubbornly refused to take the necessary precautions to reduce damage.

Tories want to ruin people's lives for using the basically harmless drug, nitrous oxide.

I can only suppose they want to get their supporters high on persecuting those despised young people.

Virginia will finally be able to remove a statue of Robert E Lee in the state capital.

Laurence Tribe explains the Soviet-style society of persecution that the Texas abortion ban law has created.