As a Wealthy, Warm Country, the US Would Benefit from Implementing a Carbon Tax to Slow Global [Heating].

US Justice Department Sues California over New Net Neutrality Law.

The FCC already said that states could not adopt stricter rules, so this confrontation was predictable. That's why some other states decided instead to adopt rules about what ISPs the state could do business with.

I hope California wins, but that is unlikely if Kavanaugh has anything to say about it.

Mahatma Gandhi tested his resistance to sexual temptation by sleeping with young naked women, and doing nothing sexual with them.

I find his religious ideas irrational, but I see no harm in what he did. Today's narrow-mindedness would call for putting him in prison.

Gandhi is not the Indian I most admire. That is Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, a firm rationalist and even firmer campaigner against bigotry.

US citizens: call on the US not to deport parents for claiming benefits for their US citizen children.

Denying medical care and food aid to children can cause them lifelong harm.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Everyone: can you find out whether this new Google "smart" thermostat is just or unjust in certain ways?

• Can you connect to it digitally without going via a server?
• Can you connect to it digitally without going via a server outside your house that belongs to someone else?
• Can you adjust the temperature with a manual control, if it is disconnected from the internet?