US citizens: call on the EPA to ban bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides.

US citizens: Call for a ban on "assault weapons".

They are not real assault weapons, but they fire bullets with the same high velocity that real assault weapons fire them, and that makes them far more deadly than an ordinary pistol.

China collects deleted WeChat messages.

You can't trust any sort of digital communication that the Chinese government tolerates. The question is, can we stop the US government from becoming equally unjust.

We need laws to forbid making communication systems that snoop on all their users. They should be designed so that they don't enable snooping on a user in the absence of a specific court order to authorize it.

Many cities give the US deportation thugs direct access to their own data bases, even in cities which are not supposed to cooperate with deportations.

Raising university fees in the UK converted universities effectively into businesses. The values of academia have been discarded. They pay their executives high salaries, students come because that is the only way to get a good job, and nowadays they cheat on exams a lot more than before.

People who could be honest when it's just a matter of intellectuality become desperate when a low mark can ruin their lives.

UK universities have been conscripted as deportation agencies and censors. One professor says that the next time he is asked to show his passport to prove he is acceptable for doing some academic task, he will decline to do it.