Oregonians voted to stop trying and punishing people for possession of small amounts of any drugs.

It is not quite accurate to describe this as "decriminalizing" drugs, but in practice it should work out that way.

*Don't be fooled: the delays in the US election result mean our system is working.*

Well, the vote-counting part is working.

A law passed in some states to conceal the names of victims of crimes is being used to cover up the identity of violent thugs.

How Facebook's measure of popularity of a posting tends to promote thoughtless extremism.

Leaving some of your data under the cloudy control of a company puts you in danger of losing it at any time for cloudy reasons.