Unprecedented fires in world heritage forests in Tasmania may now be the "new normal".

No one was prepared or equipped to fight the fires that are destroying thousand-year-old trees. The whole ecosystem may be destroyed by them.

When I visited Lebanon, I saw some of the last remaining cedars. Those trees can live a thousand years, too; but most of them were destroyed in the civil war.

Professor Resat Baris Unlu was acquitted of charges based on the exam question in which he asked about comparing writings by the leader of a Kurdish rebel group.

I fear students might have been charged with crimes because of their answers, too.

Michigan Republicans banned local governments and schools from giving information about ballot questions.

A French Catholic pressure group is pressuring France to restrict some well-known, controversial movies.

Google censored installation of Samsung's ad-blocker, saying that blocking ads is "interference" with the sites that advertise (and surveil users through ads).

The ad-blocker is proprietary software, just like the program (Google Play) that Google used to deny access to install it. Using a nonfree program gives the owner power over you, and Google has exercised that power.