The European Parliament voted for tighter limits on mining conventional oil and gas, but excepted fracking on perverse grounds.

Senator Feinstein's investigation of the CIA may have received a secret CIA torture confession with the help of a CIA whistleblower.

I hope this will teach Feinstein something about the ethics of whistleblowing.

It should also teach us that the Intelligence Committee has allowed itself to be cut off from the facts that it needs to investigate. If we want that committee to have a ghost of a chance of stopping the CIA from committing crimes against humanity, it must be given unrestrained access to any facts it considers pertinent, and must be empowered to jail officials for contempt of Congress if they obstruct the investigation.

Right-wing politicians want to condemn poor Americans for having children and for eating badly, as an excuse to cut the programs meant to help them avoid those problems.

European spy agencies have kept their political leaders in the dark about collusion with the NSA in spying on their own countries' citizens.

Whoever Wins Turkey's Power Struggle, Democracy Is Already a Casualty.