One of the singers in the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has quit rather than perform for the loser.

I've decided to call him "the loser" for a while rather than "the troll".

Several cities in the San Francisco area have rejected "predictive policing".

Using a proprietary program such as PredPol to guide policing means, in effect, outsourcing the data analysis and policy decisions of the state to the proprietor of the software. That's never justifiable.

Australian volunteers tag and measure the loggerhead sea turtles every year as they lay eggs on the beach. They rarely find a mature turtle they had not already tagged, which indicates the species is dying.

Large companies that buy consumer debt has made debt collection an unbearable burden for millions of Americans.

Since the debt-buyers are more aggressive, one solution is to forbid that activity. Legislators are constantly pestered by companies for laws that let them make more money … often at society's expense.

Matt Taibi distrusts the accusations of Russian meddling in the US election. It's not impossible, but there seems to be more propaganda than evidence.