Venezuela's all-powerful "constitutional assembly" has arbitrarily banned the three main opposition parties from the next national election for the "crime" of boycotting the recent local elections.

The "constitutional assembly" is really the "constitution override", since it serves to enable Maduro to set the constitution aside arbitrarily. The government obeys the constitution except when it doesn't.

The criticism from the US is ironic since the cheater is setting the US constitution aside simply by ignoring it.

The effectiveness of Russian troll ads in Facebook demonstrate something bad about the American people, but also about Facebook.

It may be true that Facebook is "a mirror" for its useds, but that does not mean it is safe. The useds are also a mirror for what Facebook says to them. Two mirrors facing each other, with something in between that resonates with a certain kind of energy, make up a laser, and a laser can be very dangerous if it is powerful.

I am puzzled by the article's presupposition that "Democrats" adore Facebook unquestioningly. Does that really happen?

A second disaster for Barbuda: now that the houses have been destroyed, the communal lands will be privatized.

The land will then be sold to rich foreigners for funds for rebuilding. This will probably include much of the wild areas, which will then be bulldozed.

This issue may not matter for long if global heating and sea-level rise combine to make Barbuda uninhabitable.

Before I supported the Doug Jones campaign, I had a volunteer show me his positions and found things that sounded progressive to me. It looks like I missed some things that are not very progressive.

Too bad. We need senators about whom one can say something more than, "Better than Roy Moore."

Visa plans to pay US businesses to stop accepting cash.