MDMA makes octopuses sociable.

This indicates similarity between brains whose evolution has been separate for 500 million years. Perhaps with all animal's brains.

Valentino Dixon was wrongly convicted of murder in a trial that hardly bothers to respect the rights of the accused. He had a lucky break and received national attention, after which it was discovered that his conviction was based on insufficient evidence, and he was freed.

We ought to give every murder case this sort of attention the first time.

Calling on Spain to repeal its law against blasphemy.

The US ordered two Chinese government "journalism" organizations to register as foreign agents.

That seems legitimate to me.

A former official says that, by usual standards, the FBI should investigate the attempted rape accusations against Kavanaugh.