Juan Cole: 2018 was the year Israel finally went completely rogue and ensured that it can no longer be considered to be in the club of liberal capitalist democracies. It is now formally an Apartheid state even inside the Green Line. It is also the year when the Israeli elite consciously decided to shoot down with live ammunition unarmed, peaceful demonstrators in the thousands.

"ContentID is exactly the thing YouTube claims it doesn't do: privately mediating ownership of [publications] without involving the law."

Please don't refer to publications or artistic works as "content"; that term disparages all publications and artistic works.

A series of criteria estimate how likely a genocide is in any given country.

The bully is releasing hundreds of refugees from immigration, all at once — in the middle of nowhere.

It's good that they are being released, but why do it that way?

Adorable wild parakeets in Greece may threaten native bird populations.