The owners of a corporation through which they enslaved workers from Lithuania have been ordered to compensate those workers personally.

That's good, but I hope that anyone doing such things nowadays would be convicted of a crime.

See the enslaved workers page.

A white man is accused of burning down three churches in Louisiana that were used by mostly black congregations.

President Clinton's welfare "reform" law has done what progressives predicted at the time: it has greatly increased extreme poverty.

You can't reduce dependence for people who can barely survive by yanking away their support. That's like trying to reduce dependence on wheelchairs by confiscating wheelchairs.

Glenn Greenwald: The U.S. Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedoms.

The Assange Prosecution Threatens Modern Journalism.

Here is an interview with Glenn Greenwald which NPR unexplainedly lost.

Some of users' commands to the Alexa service are recorded for Amazon staff to listen to.

Saying that some computing activity is "in the cloud" is a soothing way of saying "We won't tell you which computers it's done in, or even in which country." The only cloud involved is in the minds of people who accept the vague answer. Please join me in absolutely refusing to use that term.

Google and Apple do similar things.