Sex workers write about how the censorship law FOSTA has made their lives harder.

Journalist Jorge Ramos interviewed Maduro and was arrested (then released). Indirect reports say he showed Maduro a video of Venezuelans looking for food in the trash.

Some Americans look for food in the trash, and nowadays millions of Americans can't afford food every day. I expect that conditions are currently much worse in Venezuela under Maduro. But don't forget that Guaidó is allied with the right-wing neoliberals that brought hunger back to the US.

(Now) Labor Secretary Acosta's plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein was not only extremely lenient, it was so lenient that it was illegal.

I wonder whether this makes it possible to resentence him to a longer prison term.

I disagree with some of what the article says about Epstein. Epstein is not, apparently, a pedophile, since the people he raped seem to have all been postpuberal.

By contrast, calling him a "sex offender" tends to minimize his crimes, since it groups him with people who committed a spectrum of acts of varying levels of gravity. Some of them were not crimes. Some of these people didn't actually do anything to anyone.

I think the right term for a person such as Epstein is "serial rapist".

In a case where the plaintiff claims Roundup caused his cancer, the jury will consider scientific studies, some of which found that Roundup can cause cancer, while others found that it could not. The judge ruled that the jury is not allowed to know that Monsanto influenced and manipulated some of the latter studies.

This means, in effect, that Monsanto cheated and now can get away with it.

Drug companies often manipulate studies of the effects of drugs. To have honest medical science we must cut off their channels of manipulation. We should fund these studies with government funds, and get the funds by taxing business more.

Iran's foreign minister, a supporter of the nonnuclear deal, has resigned after saying that European countries have not continued enough trade with Iran to make it worth continuing the deal.

This is likely to strengthen the Iranian politicians that want more confrontation with the US — effectively, their equivalent of US neocons.

It might be rational for Iran to make nuclear concessions in exchange to keep the deal. But Iranians have national pride, as well as a valid grudge against the US.