Private medical insurance in the US is a totally lousy system.

Medicare for All means getting rid of it entirely — and good riddance!

Developing methods to guide parents away from anti-vaxxer FUD.

Someone is being prosecuted for bribing AT&T employees to unlock phones, and later to plant spyware in AT&T's systems.

Planting spyware should be a crime — too bad they don't prosecute companies for making software that spies on users but there is nothing wrong about unlocking phones, because it is an injustice to lock them in the first place.

Selling locked phones is an example of the "suffer injustice now, pay later" business model that is a major factor in sucking freedom out of life.

The felony murder rule punishes criminals for murder when killings happen incidentally in a crime they participated in, even slightly.

It is evidently unjust, and when the state presents it as justice, it distorts the basic idea of justice.

The mention of Ryan Holle in the article is somewhat misleading. He was aware that his roommate wanted the car that day for a robbery.

It would have been just to prosecute him as an accessory to robbery.

It is clear on the general principles of penology why this bonus punishment does nothing to deter other crimes: the situation is so unlikely to arise (when people carry out some other crime) that it is effectively a freak accident. It won't affect the mental calculations of anyone planning a robbery.

Making freak accidents worse is not a service to the public.

(satire) a local iPhone was reportedly growing paranoid Wednesday that its owner knew it was working with the FBI.

(Every one of them does that, if the FBI wishes.)