The bully's man abruptly forced out deputy FBI director Andrew McCabe.

He was going to retire with full pension in two months. It must have taken some big threat to stop him from holding out for that time.

Why take the trouble, since he was going to leave so soon? This could be merely an example of the bully's habitual cruelty, but I expect it is meant somehow as an attack on Mueller's investigation.

An experiment found that people tend to trust strangers who look like those that have treated them well, and distrust strangers who look like those that have treated them badly.

If this is a real tendency (one experiment isn't enough to show that), this pattern could tend to encourage bigotry.

A study of the techniques used for digital manipulation via platforms.

Whether the purpose is seizing political power, or selling a product, there is no reason to permit these activities. I think we can make laws that will spike them, without censoring anyone from saying any particular thing.

North Carolina's supreme court overturned a law designed to create programmed deadlock on all practical questions about early voting — as a system of voter suppression.

California now requires sex education classes to teach something about how to have good and healthy relationships.

This is a big step forward. But I think there also need to be practical lessons about the emotional aspects of sex — how to be kind to, listen to, and please your lover. To learn this — to some extent — by flailing around unaided has cost me decades. I wish someone had taught me when I was a teenager.