Watch out for Ancestry.com and its rules for who owns scans of people's DNA.

The plutocratist wing of the Democratic Party seems to want to fight just hard enough to get back in power, not to really win for the non-rich.

9 ways Iran is more free than Salafi Arabia.

Regarding item 4, electing from a list of candidates handed down from on high is a parody of democracy, and that's where Iran falls short of democracy.

Item 10 is irrelevant to the question of freedom in Iran. However, I don't think Iran's support for Assad is any worse than US support for a variety of comparably vicious regimes.

The excessive demonization of Russia has interfered with removal of an unconstitutional California law barring Communists from state jobs.

Communism sounds nice in the abstract, but when implemented it turned out to be just another system of dictatorship by an elite. China and Vietnam today, and to some extent Cuba as well, show that this outcome was not limited to the Soviet Union.

UK doctors say many of the children they treat suffer from bad health caused by Toryism and the poverty it campaigns for. This harms children's health by way of bad housing, bad food, and stress about financial insecurity.