The FDA approved a pill that permits a radio-based system to verify that the patient took the pill.

These pills suppress the patient's liberty. I consider them legitimate in the special case where the patient would otherwise be involuntarily hospitalized for psychosis.

Aside from that, it should be illegal to sell them.

Many dissenting views face being banned at US universities because others consider them "dehumanizing" of someone.

I disagree with most of those views (except those of Erika Christakis, who advocated only freedom of expression), but I defend the right to advocate them. Our respect for freedom of speech is measured by our willingness to defend the expression of views we disagree with.

The fossil fuel industry already has a lot of influence on the world climate negotiations, but Ukraine, acting for the US, thinks that is not enough. It wants to invite individual companies to participate directly.

Giving fairly small amounts of cash to poor people, with no strings, turns out to reduce illness and help children go to school.

The (old) Keystone pipeline has leaked 200,000 gallons of oil. This is one reason not to build the larger Keystone XL pipeline.

The main reason not to build it is to keep oil in the ground. To avoid disaster we need to keep 80% of the known fossil fuel reserves in the ground, and we may as well start with the highly polluting tar sands oil that would be shipped through the Keystone XL pipeline.