It seems the Shi'ite Iraqi government and the Iraqi Kurds are close to open war over the city of Kirkuk.

This means the two forces that did the most to defeat PISSI could be about to be at war.

I see nothing sacred about the borders of Iraq, or unity of Iraq. That was an artificial construct created by the UK and France at the end of World War I. Dividing Iraq into three parts might be the only way the Sunnis and Shi'ites can stop fighting each other. Their conflict, which became murderous after the fall of Saddam Hussein, was the soil from which PISSI grew.

"If the 'antibiotic apocalypse' happens, it'll be because our politicians let it."

New York City's gratis internet kiosks collect lots of personal data, including via cameras that are always running. They don't tell the public how much.

Russia used, and still uses, advertising on social networks to polarize Americans.

One approach to thwart this, without interfering with freedom of speech, is to limit the kinds of advertising targeting that are allowed.

Scientific study of interrogation of terrorist suspects confirms what expert interrogators say: the right method is to respect the suspect as a human being, and be willing to listen.

Torture, and even intimidation that is less than torture, help the suspect clam up.