The European Parliament is on the verge of either protecting digital privacy to some extent or destroying it completely.

Polls show that Americans mostly support positions that are typically called progressive.

Democrats that call themselves "centrist" are actually moderately right-wing. Only progressive candidates represent Americans.

The thug that killed Philando Castile was acquitted.

Unconscious racism leads many thugs to immediately suppose their lives are in danger, when confronting a black man is armed, even if he acts in the most calm and reasonable way. As long as juries accept that irrational and unjustified fear as a get-out-of-jail-free card, thugs will get away with unjustified killings. To put an end to this reign of terror, we have to change the system. Where can we change it?

A new Japanese "anti-terror" law would treat sit-in strikes as "terrorism" and make it easy to snoop on dissidents.

Such laws are far more dangerous than terrorism itself.

Several US states plan to make it impossible for the public to get thugs' body camera videos.

Access to the images should be limited somewhat, so that neither the public nor the state can see it unless there is a specific justification. But when the justification is good enough for the state to look, it is good enough for the public to look.