Puerto Rico's governor has finally agreed to resign, after many protests including 1/3 of the island's population, plus plans to impeach him.

The sad thing about Puerto Rico is that the US has saddled it with so much debt, and imposed so much privatization, that good politicians wouldn't have much chance to do a good job.

After the FTC's slap on Facebook's wrist, we can expect it to abuse personal data over and over.

However, even a bigger fine could at best have limited how Facebook abuses personal data. The real problem is that Facebook collects personal data.

So don't be a zucker — don't give Facebook any data. And use a browser such as IceCat that blocks Like buttons, so Facebook can't get data about you in any other way.

Suggestions for what progressive trade policy should look like: putting human beings and nature first.

What it says about "intellectual property" tries to go in the right direction, but it is flawed by taking the bogus concept of "intellectual property" as a basis.

Today's global heating, affecting the whole globe, has no parallel in historical temperature changes.

Congress and the bully have passed a law to stop the IRS from seizing people's money without a trial on mere suspicion that they were evading the requirement to report depositing more than $10,000 by depositing smaller amounts.

Yes, it was as absurd as it looks.