Cars track lots of data about drivers, and one way or another companies get it.

"Microsoft loves Linux the way a python likes sheep." Microsoft uses software patent threats to bully Android phone makers to include Microsoft's proprietary software, which may be malware too.

Taser wants to sign up the public to send video evidence of crimes to the local thug department.

Fat lot of good that will do when thugs commit crimes.

Both democracy and human rights in the US were sick before the bully was elected, and just replacing him won't fix that.

I asked a volunteer to check the points in the article about US prisons and he found references to support all of them.

The bully's saboteurs are attacking both human rights and democracy; even to undo this damage may be difficult. And if they get enough control over the courts, they will never allow opposition to win elections.

Still, we have to try — because giving up guarantees the worst possible outcome.

Farmers in Colombia are rapidly cutting down the forest for farms that wear out the land quickly. Some are trying to teach them to plant fruit trees and hardwood tree plantations.

The other half of the solution for preserving the forest is to limit the numbers of human beings that try to make a living in it.