Canada's corrupt government snuck a 20-year copyright extension into the law as a rider on a budget bill.

A constitution that permits an irrevocable attack on people's rights to be made so easily needs to be amended. It must be possible to shorten copyright just as easily as to lengthen copyright.

A Christian preacher in the UK faces prosecution for saying that Islam is "Satanic". He refuses to retract and dares the state to put him in prison for stating his views.

The UK doesn't respect freedom of speech very well.

I would not call anything "Satanic", not seriously, because that accusation presumes that devils exist. But there is plenty to condemn as evil in various religions.

Popular resistance against standardized tests in New York State: 20% of the students that were suppose to take the test refused to participate.

The US punishes people for life after they get a criminal conviction, in many ways. One is denying various forms of social assistance.

These people are also permanently excluded from many kinds of employment. The jobs that they can get don't pay a living wage, which means that without some sort of social assistance, they are almost compelled to try more crime.

Executives of fossil fuel companies get rewarded for increasing the company's known reserves, regardless of whether those reserves can ever be used.