A journalist used just metadata to tie Comey's pseudonymous Twitter account to him personally. This shows that we should not dismiss snooping on "just metadata" as unintrusive.

Plutocrats say they will help Puerto Rico "recover" by eliminating "structural barriers": minimum wage laws, labor rules requiring just-cause termination, paid sick days for employees, paternity leave, and overtime pay.

In other words, they want a fast recovery for business owners by making things worse for workers.

I wonder if the reason they fight for rapid global heating is to make more disasters they can use in this way.

Thirty Countries Use "Armies of Opinion Shapers" to Manipulate Democracy.

Economics is a toolkit, not a physical law. We can fix parasitic drains (such as tax-dodging) by changing the system so that they are illegal and can be stopped.

Some Rohingya are trapped on the beach in Burma, with no path to flee.