Machines are becoming able to make fine judgments better than humans can. Many jobs that require training and skill are in danger of elimination. They also give employers more power over employees in other jobs.

In the short term, we should ban some kinds of machines that would automate many jobs. In the longer term, we need to reorganize society so that people don't need to find work.

Students at the University of Western Australia are protesting the government's plan to establish a global heating denial center there.

The government is a tool for the fossil fuel companies and has already promoted denialism.

A year after Boko Haram kidnaped 276 girls from Chibok, there is still no school in the town.

It makes no sense to build a new school there if it would be a magnet for another kidnaping. If security been reestablished sufficiently to make that unlikely, it is important to restart school there.

Morsi was sentenced to prison for a fatal fight between his supporters and protesters, while he was president of Egypt.

Will al-Sisi be tried for the murder of over a thousand Morsi supporters by thugs, shortly after the military coup? Not likely.

Israeli fanatics object to including a murdered Arab boy in the memorial to victims of terrorism.