When New Orleans decided to take down some monuments to Confederate leaders, installed to express support for racism, violent racists threatened the contractors, then attacked them. The city had to fight to remove these monuments.

Mayor Landrieu learned that this is exactly the spirit in which the monuments were originally erected, to perpetuate racism years after the civil war ended.

Many US cities use zoning laws to prevent people from doing business in their homes.

"The chief lesson of a new report is that making abortion illegal or hard to get doesn't end abortion, it just makes it less safe."

How Congress Censored the Internet.

Craigslist has eliminated its personals section. FOSTA has made it too dangerous for a web site to have a personals section.

Let's hope that FOSTA is found unconstitutional.

I fully support efforts to put an end to enslavement of people to make them do sex work. But the problem is enslavement, not sex work, and enslavement is found in many fields of work. They include construction, farming, fishing, manicure, and domestic service.

We wouldn't propose to end enslavement in fishing by creating threats of imprisonment for anyone that operates a fishing boat. We shouldn't do it in sex work, either.

The US Congress brought a shadow on privacy world-wide by passing the CLOUD Act.