Don't fall into the trap of agreeing that banning strong encryption would be justified if terrorists or criminals ever use it.

US statistics for arrests of "sex traffickers" are grossly inflated: most of them are sex workers and customers. Some pimps that aren't traffickers are also included.

A mother in Sacramento is threatened with six months in prison for letting her child play outside the house.

The point that the child is in far more danger riding in a car with a parent is especially cogent. American society is tied up in knots by obsession with some rare and unlikely dangers, such as child-snatching and terrorism.

MSF says that the Pentagon's report about the attack on the MSF hospital in Kunduz has suspicious gaps, while showing procedures that amount to negligence.

I pointed out some instances of negligence.

Sanders says he will fix the cruelties of US immigration policy.