Benjamin Ferencz was one of the prosecutors in the Nuremberg war crimes trials, after investigating Nazi concentration camps in the US Army. His obituaries do not mention that he called for prosecution of Dubya and some of his ministers.

*Climate emergency is the biggest health crisis of our time — bigger than Covid.*

A billionaire Republican hedge-fund founder tries to buy elections, and perhaps has succeeded. He did succeed in buying the naming rights of Harvard's general graduate school.

I expect the students and faculty will have their say now, and I hope their condemnation of that Republican will live longer than he does.

When the MIT AI Lab moved to the Stata Center, and I discovered that one of the two towers was named Bill Gates, I urged people to refuse to call it by that name. I suggested Minas Tirith and Minas Morgul, but people settled on the innocuous "D Tower" and "G Tower".

I also made a practice of formally saluting the sign that says "Bill Gates", near the outside door of the G tower, with my middle finger.

Methods like this can certainly be used against another billionaire donor who has harmed people's freedom.

Rutgers faculty are on strike to call for a raise for all the kinds of teachers at the school.

Coffee shops in Ukraine have "security cameras" that should better be called "insecurity cameras", because Russian crackers broke their security in order to snoop on Ukrainian convoys.

Any store that takes pictures of its customers and puts them on a network in real time is making its customers vulnerable.