It looks like the FBI is cutting the Kavanaugh investigation short under pressure from Republican politicians.

However, Senator Collins is now insisting on a thorough FBI investigation of Kavanaugh.

The article presumes, and I agree, that her shifts on the issue are a matter of how seriously she takes the political pressure from various sides. I can't see what pressure could be responsible for her supporting Kavanaugh as much as she has done until this point, despite knowing that her constituents will resent it, but it must be awfully powerful.

I am relieved to see that the anti-Kavanaugh pressure is capable of outweighing that.

Former federal prosecutors say that prosecutor Mitchell examined Prof. Blasey Ford only, which is far too little to constitute an adequate basic investigation of her accusations, but Mitchell's report passes it off as one.

This is just one of the flaws they describe, which suggest it is politically motivated.

Here's a summary of various kinds of harm that Canada would suffer in the field of copyright if it adopts the NAFTA replacement.

The article confusingly presents a few harms in the area of patent law. It looks like the author is following the confused practice of lumping together several unrelated laws and calling them "intellectual property". The confusion in that term is why we should refuse ever to use it.

The article also uses the word "content" so much that I groan inwardly as I read it. I would have preferred to link to some other article to present this information, but the information is important and I don't know of one.

The people that live in Washington DC voted to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers, in effect to put an end to their dependence on tipping. The city council, influenced by money from restaurant companies, is in the process of overriding that decision.

The article uses the confused term "people of color". I agree with the article's position but not with that term.

New Zealand's new law about searching digital devices of people entering the country has an apparent step forward, in that it requires specific grounds for suspicion. But the thugs don't have to say what it is, so the step forward is more apparent than real.