France is trashing freedom of expression. The reaction to a non-state attack on freedom of speech is a state attack on freedom of speech.

Views on various questions are banned in France. In November I urged French officials to repeal the law banning expression of doubts about the genocide of the Armenians. People should be free to state any views whatsoever about this question, as about every other political, historic or ethical question.

Robert Reich: Why Work Is Turning Into a Nightmare: the piecework service economy.

This has nothing to do with sharing. Let's reserve the word "sharing" for voluntary cooperation, and denounce its use for these businesses. And then let's abolish them.

The US has persecuted Palestinian exile Sami Al-Arian with absurd charges and contradictory demands for 12 years.

Some of the accusations were based on books he had copies of (which does not mean he agreed with them).

Prosecuting someone for having copies of books is a form of tyranny. The UK practices this tyranny openly while the US uses it by subterfuge.

Melted Greenland ice runs to the bottom and makes lakes under the ice sheet. This speeds the flow, making the ice sheet more vulnerable to a tipping point that would melt a lot of it.

Ireland's law against blasphemy is not only unjust in itself; it provides an excuse for other countries that punish blasphemy aggressively.