Some Egyptian Islamists say they will fight to impose their religion's cruelty on the country.

Massive surveillance is making some Americans hesitate to sign petitions lest they be punished by intensified personal surveillance.

This is the result of the state's demonstrate practice of treating dissidents as "terrorist suspects".

The US is not close to being a dictatorship with one tyrant at the top, but that's not the only nondemocratic form of government. What rules the US now is a plutocracy — government of the people, by the flunkies, for the rich and their businesses. It steadily eats away at what remains of our democracy, while increasing the repression against those that try to defend it.

Thus, the fact that a one-dictator state is not likely in the short term is of less significance than one might have wished.

Twitter is being used for advertisements that pretend not to be advertisements.

Due to widening inequality, hundreds of millions of children remain poor in countries that are not considered poor overall.

Part of the cause of this problem is that poor people have too many babies. However, that's partly our fault for not giving them the reliable contraception which they can't afford.

Rapid population growth, caused by bad government policies on birth control and abortion, will push the biosphere closer to disaster.

We need to slow this down.

French right-wing candidate Le Pen faces prosecution for comparing the presence of Muslims praying as an "occupation".

This demonstrates how France fails to respect freedom of speech.