Russian Activists Arrested for Sexual Harassment Protest.

The full manifesto of the Poor People's Campaign.

I support it. I agree with each point.

Here is a report describing the circumstances of poverty in the US.

The EU threatens further censorship, initially of "hate speech".

Dissident views such as the Poor People's Campaign and anti-fracking will be censored sooner or later.

The American Federation of Teachers, a large union, threatens Wells Fargo bank with a boycott unless it stops investing in gun companies.

A 15-year-old burglar has been sentenced to 65 years in prison (until age 80) because another burglar was shot and killed.

The principle applied here, that each participant in the crime is responsible for its consequences, seems valid to me up to a certain limited point — but I think this stretches it too far.

Imprisoning people beyond age 50 for ordinary violence is generally superfluous because the urge to violence dies away before that age.