ACLU: Harvard was wrong to dismiss a house dean for working as a defense lawyer for a widely hated accused criminal.

I basically agree, with one proviso: perhaps the students in a house should be entitled to reject the house dean at will. If we accept that, then it wasn't wrong for the students in that house to reject this dean.

But if we accept that, it should be an explicit policy, so it does not look like the dean has been found guilty of anything other than displeasing the students.

(satire) Leila and Tom Gerhart admitted Monday that they would not have continued their loveless marriage if they had known their son Harris, 21, would turn out the way he did.

Klobuchar has endorsed the Green New Deal in the abstract, but continues to support policies of increased fossil fuel extraction and use.

Tweaking NAFTA and other business-supremacy treaties is nibbling around the edges. The US needs to adopt an industrial policy and shun treaties that would conflict with one.

The author falls into a widespread confusion by using the term "intellectual property" it spreads confusion. That term does not fit the reality of the legal system, because it tries to generalize about a bunch of unrelated laws which have nothing important in common.

A few of those laws raise important moral and social issues. But each law raises different issues! If you treat them as a single topic and look for a single way to treat them, you are already headed for a bad decision.

Please joining me in rejecting the misguided overgeneralization of "intellectual property" and treating each of those laws as a separate issue.

"When you take a commercial genetic test, you opt your whole family into warrantless state genetic surveillance."

Government agents should have to get a warrant before they can match DNA samples against your relatives' uploaded DNA in order to find you. And the warrants should be allowed only for serious crimes.

This may not be enough. Democracy depends on whistleblowers, and identifying people through their relatives' DNA means that whistleblowers need to avoid leaving a DNA sample.

I conclude that, for the sake of holding back tyranny, it is your duty not to upload your own DNA.