Captain Swenson received the medal of honor for saving rounded soldiers, after having been subject to many lies as a whistleblower.

The Strange Stalinization of the American Right.

Stalinist political authoritarianism has little to do with the political questions that distinguish right-wing and left-wing.

It does not surprise me that the Tea Party has revealed that its true colors are the confederate colors of a slave system. But that does not mean they are racist. They are equal opportunity rip-off artists, eager to impoverish most Americans of whatever race.

How Ronald Reagan's bogus idea of "trickle down", which George I called "voodoo economics", threw the US into decline and debt.

As a means to achieve its stated, supposed aims, Reaganomics was a failure. But he probably wasn't sincere about it anyway. Considered as a scheme to enrich the rich and screw the rest of us, it was a great success.

Albert-László Barabási: Scientists must spearhead ethical use of big data.

The idea that you should "own" your personal data sounds nice, if you wish to think of human rights as deriving from property. I think that is perverted: human rights are more important and fundamental than property. In any case, it is clearly insufficient to protect us from dangerous surveillance. What you own, you're entitled to sell, and businesses are adept at getting most people to "voluntarily" give up enough data to make a tremendous dossier.

We need to ensure that systems do not ask people to surrender such data.

High school students in Paris went on strike after one of them was deported.

In general, I don't think any country is obliged to accept as an immigrant anyone that wants to move there. However, it appears that Leonarda Dibrani is an example of a special case: people who have been in the country since such a young age that they don't know any other home.