Americans are ready to stop trying to dominate the world. Most Democratic politicians have yet to catch up.

Twitter will give "prominent politicians" an exception from its rules against posting hatred.

I think this is a combination of circumstances in which there is simply no choice that Twitter can make which isn't bad.

An appeals court decided it had no authority over whether the conman could effectively eliminate federal workers right to operate a union.

I wonder how many of the judges involved were appointed recently by Republicans.

The conman's appointees on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission want to inspect nuclear power plants less often.

The owners won't need to fix problems if they can avoid finding out about them. The only way we will know about them is if they lead to an accident.

A nuclear power plan accident typically results from a combination of factors, each one of which might have seemed not to be a big deal by itself. Just the sort of the things that the owners would suggest could be ignored.

The scientific publishers are opposed even to data-mining the corpus of scientific literature.

I will be glad if Carl Malamud's hack succeeds, but let's not be distracted by it. The most important use of the scientific literature is exactly what he will take care not to make possible: to read it. Sci-Hub, by contrast, does achieve that. Thus, I admire Sci-Hub more.