The road to the victory over access to Plan B: "We followed a cardinal rule of the radicals of the 1960's Women's Liberation Movement: we demanded what we really wanted, rather than toning down to be respectable."

This is my rule too. Many others demand small changes in the DMCA or DRM, or talk about "open source", and say it's because they don't want to be dismissed as "radical". It means they can't reach for much.

Interventions in Syria's civil war may be motivated by oil pipelines, part of the root cause was the effects of global heating.

Bangladesh has made it easier for clothing workers to unionize.

Comparing today's US with the fictional world of Atlas Shrugged makes a strange contrast.

A candidate for mayor of New York denounces the thug department's "stop-and-frisk" practice for its evident racial bias.

However, it will be difficult to prevent the decision to search a particular person from being based on race, unless the thugs must show a specific justification for each instance. In other words, searching a person must require probable cause.

Street crime is much less than it was 20 years go, perhaps due to the removal of lead from the children's environment. Even if there was once a reason to allow thugs to search people arbitrarily, it is gone.