Several LA thugs are being prosecuted for attacking people with kicks, punches or sticks — people who were shackled or not resisting.

Helping to protect gorillas by providing contraception to humans around their habitat.

Programs that can recognize people's emotions will enable companies to manipulate people.

The Biggest Threat to the Earth? We [or most of us, at least] Have Too Many Kids.

China's one-child policy has done tremendous good; it is too bad that India didn't have one, as it might have avoided suicides like this one.

In China as in India, people often get no compensation when driven off their land, but in wealthier China you might find another way to get by.

House Passes Cybersecurity Bill Despite Privacy Protests.

The claim that improving security protects privacy is disingenuous, because protecting privacy from crooks does not substitute for protecting privacy from the state. The state has far more power, so the danger of its knowing too much about everyone is far greater.