ACLU: Teens Who Engage in 'Sexting' Should Not Be Prosecuted as Sex Offenders.

We are making great progress towards eliminating various tropical diseases that infect large numbers of poor people.

Along with this, we need to make great progress in reducing the birth rate, or we will increase other replacement afflictions.

Islamists in Jakarta succeeded in stirring up religious vote to defeat the governor of Jakarta.

Even worse, they did this by accusing him of "blasphemy". That was unjust at two levels, since (1) it was false and (2) it is an injustice to make that a crime at all.

The Democratic Party Must Finally Abandon Centrism.

When you threaten to transfer back a substantial part of what the rich have taken from the poor, the rich scream as if they were dying. And they claim that we will lose gigantic amounts of (nonexistent) trickledown from them.

Thus, if we fail to make the rich scream, it means we are not trying hard enough to make them share the gains with the rest of us.

Right-wing Democratic Senator Feinstein is meeting lots of criticism from progressive constituents for the floppiness of her resistance to SCROTUS.

It's true that one senator can't overcome SCROTUS. All the Democratic senators together sometimes can't stop SCROTUS. But they can stop SCROTUS from passing legislation — and they can contribute to the swell of opinion that will elect a progressive Congress.