US citizens: call on Congress to investigate Amazon's videosurveillance of the public.

The European Union is failing to defend democracy from bullies.

'Tax the Hell Out of Me,' Says Young Millionaire Google Exec at Prospect of a President Bernie Sanders.

You don't have to choose your vote according to your own selfish interest.

US forces cornered al-Baghdadi, head of PISSI, and he blew himself up along with a few of his children, who he was using as hostages.

Even disregarding questions of right and wrong, I can't see the logic of using human shields against one's own suicide bomb.

The bullshitter is presenting this as a great victory. Perhaps mainstream media will say that war makes him "appear presidential", as they did for Dubya in such situations.

Alas, this is unlikely to be a significant setback for PISSI. Such organizations expect their officers to be killed, and systematically prepare replacements for them. If the bullshitter does get a boost from this, that could harm the US and the world. That harm could easily outweigh the good of doing a small setback to PISSI.

Sanders calls for bringing back rehabilitation as the primary goal of prison.

US prisons put substantial emphasis on rehabilitation in the 1970s, but the massive increase in imprisonment in the 1980s meant that prisons could barely afford to warehouse the prisoners.