The 1978 US copyright law dealt a horrible blow to the public domain. Here is a list of just a few of the highly appreciated books that would be in the public domain now if not for that law.

Copyright should last for ten years from the date of publication of a work.

Immigrants from Mexico don't seem to cause much crime — US cities near the border have low crime rates.

Chinese students in the Marxist Student Society met with fierce repression after they tried to support a strike in the name of Mao Zidong. They have been jailed (some of them incommunicado, as is common in China).

Mao Zidong is an ironic choice of icon for a movement to help workers against the power of the state, since he was as repressive as any ruler in history. Life and Death in Shanghai, by Nien Cheng, describes her experience in the Great Cultural Revolution; around ten years previously, Mao's policies causes a nationwide famine. But China's censorship has left these students little opportunity to learn about what Mao did.

Despite this irony, their hearts are in the right place. That is what China has jailed them for.

US citizens: call on the Senate to reject coal lobbyist Andrew Wheeler as head of the EPA.

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Research of internal documents demonstrates that the massacre of Communists in Indonesia in 1965-66 was planned by the army and ordered explicitly by General Suharto.