While many professors and students worry that guns in classrooms will frighten people and discourage free expression, supporters of a new state law counter that the right to bear arms must not … Continue reading What University of Texas Campus Is Saying About Concealed Guns – The New York Times

Screening donated blood is already underway in Florida and Puerto Rico, but now rest of the country should follow. Zika is a particularly dangerous virus because of the limited to unknown extent … Continue reading US blood supply should be screened for Zika, FDA says – CNN.com

At least you can opt out of some upcoming targeted advertising, though. Even though Whatsapp recently started offering end-to-end encryption for its users (though not turned on by default) this latest move … Continue reading WhatsApp Will Share Your Phone Number With Facebook and More

Apple has patched its mobile operating system after investigators found flaws that were exploited to spy on dissidents and journalists. Nice that a US owned company is helping this regime track journalists. … Continue reading IPhone Users Urged to Update Software After Security Flaws Are Found

Some politicians began backpedaling as an outcry grew on social media over the apparent public humiliation and ostracism of Muslim women dressed in modest attire. The burkini should be an article of … Continue reading French ‘Burkini’ Bans Provoke Backlash as Armed Police Confront Beachgoers

A ruling by the National Labor Relations Board involving students at Columbia opens the door for teaching assistants at private universities to organize. If the fear is that unions will impact academic … Continue reading Graduate Students Clear Hurdle in Effort to Form Union

So long as we’re dreaming about a Clinton administration, here are the economists I’d advise Hillary Clinton to hire Great selection of economists, especially #1 Stephanie Kelton and #4 Pavlina Tcherneva. The chances … Continue reading Hillary Clinton’s economic dream team

Hundreds of thousands of Syrians are in dire need of aid, with the situation especially acute in Aleppo, but the official said not a single relief convoy had been dispatched so far … Continue reading U.N. Relief Official Calls Crisis in Aleppo the ‘Apex of Horror’

The government’s civil defence plan has been strongly condemned by the opposition party Die Linke, who say it could lead to people panic buying. This is in Germany, and this type of … Continue reading Gov’t advice to stockpile food criticized as ‘scaremongering’

Pregnant women should not travel to an area of Miami Beach where local Zika virus transmission has been confirmed, the CDC said. Due to the government’s, in truth, the world’s, slow response … Continue reading Zika in Miami Beach: CDC tells pregnant women not to go – CNN.com

The Justice Department cited a decline in federal prisoners and a critical recent report about safety and security problems in for-profit facilities. The move to decrease the usage of private prisons can … Continue reading U.S. to Phase Out Use of Private Prisons for Federal Inmates – The New York Times

Several tools released online over the weekend remain unfixed. Compromising the security of companies at home in order to spy on others seems hypocritical.  When the news that the agency spies on … Continue reading NSA’s use of software flaws to hack foreign targets posed risks to cybersecurity