Perpetual War: How Does the Global War on Terror Ever End?

The NSA says that its massive collection of information on phone calls in Spain and France comes from intelligence agencies in those countries.

It's not clear whether France reports to the NSA about phone calls in France while Spain reports about phone calls in Spain, or whether France reports on those in Spain and Spain reports on those in France.

If someone wanted to present the situation as "US bad, Europe good", this would put a spike in it. But I think the issue is that states are massively surveilling their citizens, often with the help of other states, and this news only indicts more governments as participants.

People Who Live Downwind Of Alberta's Oil And Tar Sands Operations Are Getting Blood Cancer. The connection is not mysterious, given the measured levels of pollutants in the air there.

Only part of Texas's law to make abortion effectively impossible has been rejected in its first appeal.

Congress plans to cut almost a million US veterans from food stamps, and other people too.