Columbia Sportswear threatens to move its headquarters out of Portland unless the city kicks homeless people out of the neighborhood.

The company could easily donate to support a project to give them better alternatives to their annoying behaviors, perhaps inviting other businesses in the neighborhood to join forces. That would be solving the businesses' problem by helping poor people rather than by harming them.

Argentina barred 60 civil society delegates from the WTO meeting for bogus reasons. It relented on five of the delegates after ministries from their countries went to bat for them.

Women that the bully groped or harassed call on Congress to pay the same attention to their accusations as it paid to Al Franken.

"Inappropriate behavior" is not a valid accusation against anyone, not even the bully, because it is too vague and weaselly. If you can't spell out what you're criticizing someone for, and why it was wrong, then your criticism is not valid.

Mobile computers and data centers could cause 14% of global carbon emissions by 2040.

If all our electric generation is renewable by then, it won't be a problem — but we will have trouble achieving that if we allow unlimited computers.

New Yorkers have learned not to be terrorized by a small explosion from a terrorist's bomb, but right-wing extremists are trying to magnify the terror.

Even when a terrorist attack causes substantial casualties, we face the choice of aggravating the harm or not. Aggravating it may serve the interest of some political or commercial group. Not aggravating it serves the interests of Americans in general, and America. Whatever the problem is, dealing with calmly will help us avoid doing something stupid and destructive, such as occupying Iraq.

One tweet cited in the article used the contraction "who's" incorrectly. The contraction "who's" is short for "who is" or "who has", and neither of them fits grammatically there. The word that belongs there is "whose", the possessive of "who". Like all the other possessive forms of pronouns, it has no apostrophe.

Arguably, the failure of recent terrorists suggests that PISSI no longer has the capacity to help terrorists, so they are not able to procure dangerous weapons.

They can still get cars and trucks, so there will still be some deadly attacks. Since the plans for such attacks take place within the attacker's mind, even total surveillance couldn't stop them. So enough with the plans to snoop on us all.