Ukraine says Russia has withdrawn most of its troops.

Offering some sort of partial autonomy to eastern Ukraine seems like a fine thing to do, and should not have required a war.

The neo-Nazi Azov militia battalion mumbles about overthrowing the government of Ukraine.

Hawai'i's hotels are pushing to make it a crime to sleep or even sit on the sidewalk in Honolulu. The proper answer to those hotels is, "Give the homeless people a better place to sleep and sit, or shut up!"

Meanwhile, providing a camp on Sand Island is better than what many other US cities are doing.

The fear-war complex has convinced lots of Americans that ISIS is a direct threat to the US.

The US government is planning to pressure Iraq to adopt a federal scheme for the "security forces".

(Note that the article errs in speaking of the "Sunni majority". The Sunnis are a minority in Iraq, and the Iraqi government is controlled by the Shi'ite majority, which has used this power to oppress the Sunni minority.)

I don't know enough to say this can work, but it seems to be at least vaguely headed in a sensible direction.

However, the idea of supporting Syrians that are fighting both Assad and ISIS has serious problems: some of them are almost as fanatical Islamists as ISIS, and the rest tend to treat Islamists as rivals rather than enemies.

Chinese censorship demonstrates that the internet empowers tyrannical regimes, if they are clever.

To argue for human rights based on efficiency is turning things upside down. Freedom is more important than efficiency. We should sacrifice efficiency for freedom if necessary.

If we want freedom in the internet, we can't assume that will happen due to the nature of the internet. We have to fight for it. YOU have to fight for it.