US citizens: phone your senators to oppose the nomination of Michael Boggs as a federal judge.

He voted for a state bill to interfere with abortion.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

End the failed "war on drugs", say five winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics.

I'm glad they have had the daring to speak up.

Republican and Democratic populists are converging on common political points.

Putin said that the referendum pro-Russia separatists plan to hold about secession of Eastern Ukraine should be postponed.

I don't see anything wrong with adopting a federal structure in Ukraine, offering that and other regions more autonomy. It could result in more democracy, in addition to possibly satisfying the concerns of ethnic Russians in the eastern part.

I speculated some weeks ago that Putin was provoking this second crisis so that, by eventually giving in, he could get the world's attention off the Crimea.

The W3C is mostly ineffective at resisting the demands of businesses to pervert the World Wide Web.