Judging Obama's drone attacks against international law finds that many of them are crimes.

Democracy activists in the Maldives are calling for a tourist boycott to pressure the state to allow a free election; meanwhile, the state has made it a crime to advocate that boycott.

This reminds me of the Israeli law that threatens to bankrupt anyone that advocates the boycott of products made in Israel's colonies in Palestinian territory.

New Zealand has passed a US-style law requiring telecommunications companies to implement interception facilities.

I don't think such facilities are bad in themselves; however, the state must not be able to use them unmonitored.

The Marshall Islands' inhabitants are trying to live sustainably, and hoping that the rest of the world will follow their example rather than inundating them.

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act is not strong enough; it has a religious loophole.

It's not just gay staff that face the threat of discrimination when a secular hospital merges with a religious one; the patients do, too. We should require religious hospitals to provide all sorts of care that patients are entitled to, including abortions; if the church doesn't like it, it can sell the hospital to a foundation.