(satire) …local man Derek Wilkinson told reporters Friday he worries his girlfriend, Katie Spencer, has started to become radicalized by a skin-care blog.

Ralph Nader: progressive politicians need to campaign for deeper changes to end plutocracy.

To give them credit, single-payer medical care is one such change which progressives have taken up.

Let's hope the spread of Democratic Socialism will lead to adoption of more of Nader's proposals.

Australia's planned law to require companies and individuals to help the state break encryption could be used to repress free encryption software and free software generally, around the world.

Australia is an inviting site for attacks on human rights because its constitution does not protect human rights, and these attacks can be extended to the whole world.

The US government has disregarded the court order to reunite refugee minors with their parents. Over 560 minors are still waiting.

The article refers to them as "children", but it is generally bad to talk about teenagers that way.

A US auction for offshore oil drilling leases attracted less interest than expected. Only 1% of the leases offered were sold.

That's a good sign, but not enough to imply that we are on course already to avoid global disaster. We need to push hard, to reach that point.