A riot of looting occurred in a part of Venezuela where there is a major crossing to Colombia.

When I was there, my friends told me that people bought subsidized goods and took them to Colombia to sell at market prices, and this resulted in shortages. The Venezuelan government subsidized those goods without limit, rather than subsidizing limited amounts per person or family.

The Australian government is concealing the details of an oil spill in the ocean, to protect the company responsible from criticism and protests.

The DOJ has appointed a special investigator to head the investigation of troll. This will include his relationship with Russia and whether he committed obstruction of justice.

The head of the investigation is independent within certain limits.

A challenge that right-wing antiabortionists can't beat: provide benefits to make life easier for women that have babies.

Alas, in the actual world we must not do that, because it would encourage population growth, and that threatens to destroy civilization. What we can and should do is systematically provide reliable contraception gratis to every woman that would choose to abort a pregnancy.

Students at a Texas college fended off a plan to invite a Republican senator as their graduation speaker.

I wish MIT students would organize to reject the CEO of Apple as a graduation speaker. And I wish Harvard students would organize to reject the CEO of Facebook as a graduation speaker.