The mission of policing is the community's safety, not the safety of individual thugs. When thugs kill people that are not in fact threatening anyone, they betray their mission. Laws must not accept panic and worst-case arguments as an excuse for this.

In New York State, a strong movement of parents is rejecting the US-imposed standardized tests that have distorted education for a decade.

Anarchists in Portland, Oregon, fix potholes before the state gets there.

I do not agree with their opposition to the existence of a state, but I'm glad to see people privately organizing to do some of the jobs society needs.

US phone companies cheat their customers, then try to create legal excuses to stop the cheated customers from suing them.

The repressive Egyptian government wants to execute a press photographer, who was jailed not long after the military coup that put this government into power.