Monsanto asks people to calm down and have a civil conversation about GMOS, even as it sues to overturn the laws passed by Vermont and Maui.

The US government has a secret search engine to search through the billions of records of Americans' and other people's communications.

The agencies that use this data pretend that they didn't use it and it doesn't exist. They are legally required to minimize their retention of data about Americans, but they ignore that.

The Senate torture investigators did not try to talk with prisoners in Guantanamo about how they were tortured.

Human emissions have already locked in 1.5C of global heating, and the consequences will be disastrous. The question is how soon we stop making it worse.

Hagel's resignation should provide an opportunity to debate Obama's wars.

The US mainstream media will, however, express no doubts.