The Canadian government is trying to fire scientist Tony Turner for singing a song that criticized the anti-science pollutician Harper.

Harper has done many things to suppress science in Canada so it can't show the harm that his policies are doing.

An example of what happens when teachers are graded based on students' standardized tests.

In the US and the UK, this practice accompanies a push to replace public schools with privatized "charter schools". If the policy is to punish the teacher whose class tests lowest, or punish the school in the district that tests lowest, there will always be someone to punish, always some school that there is an excuse to close.

A US court accepted the NSA's catch-22: if you can't prove you personally were spied on, you can't sue about whether they are allowed to spy on you.

Judges that twist the law like this are inviting everyone to spit on it.

The private guards at Australia's immigration prison in Nauru handcuffed an 8-year-old boy prisoner as a joke.

This example is an outlier in its specifics, but it is typical of the spirit of the Nauru immigration prison.

Europeans are considering imposing metal detectors at train stations after an attempted massacre on a train.

There are so many places someone could shoot people. It is silly to pile security on the last one someone tried to use, especially given that the dismal failure of this attack will probably incline the next shooter to try some other sort of place.