- De Blasio Is Elected New York City Mayor—"The election of Bill de Blasio, the Democratic candidate, amounted to a forceful rejection of the hard-nosed, business-minded style of governance that reigned at City Hall for the past two decades." Buh-bye Bloomie. NYT
- Virginia Election Results: Terry McAuliffe Beats Ken Cuccinelli In Governor's Race—From what I gather, McAuliffe was the lesser of two scumbags, and women and unmarried voters, who were turned off by the sodomy-obsessed Cooch, boosted him to victory.
- What Christie's victory means for the next presidential race—Will the Tea Party let him past the primary?
- Tea Partier Defeated in Alabama Runoff
- Voters in Virginia, New Jersey leave tea party reeling
- Voter ID Laws in Action: "Looks Like I Don't Get to Vote Today"—"Thwarted voters take to Twitter to describe how the new laws hampered voting, confused poll workers, and inspired some to just stay home."
- Texas Voter ID law snags former House Speaker Jim Wright
- The Voting Fraud Bust that Proves Texas' Voter ID Law Is Useless
- Lawsuit challenges Minnesota's online voter registration system—Doing everything to suppress the vote.
- "Integrity" and the Voter Purge: Too Many Unanswered Questions
- Several explosions rock provincial HQ of China's Communist Party
- Saudi Arabia Rejects Seat on U.N. Security Council and Confuses Everyone
- Anonymous' 'Million Mask March' goes global—"With 450 cities on the roster, the hacking collective takes its online protests to the streets."
- German support for small business has kept its economy thriving as the rest of Europe languishes in recession
- London's cheapest suburb? It's Barcelona—"London's Sam Cookney caused a stir recently when he argued property prices in the UK capital were so high it would be cheaper to live in Barcelona and fly to work every day. Here he tells The Local what inspired his thinking."
- Conservatives gave Duffy more than one cheque, senator claims—Timeline: Canada's Senate scandal
- Rob Ford scandal: Toronto Police have video apparently showing mayor smoking crack—He's finally admitted it.
- Oops: Azerbaijan released election results before voting had even started WaPo
- Diebold charged with bribing officials, falsifying records in China, Russia, Indonesia; fined nearly $50 million
- Mayor Steals $60k In Christmas Toy Money Intended For Children
- Watch the video on Israeli racism The New York Times didn't want you to see
- Racism at play as 'kidnapped' Roma children taken from parents
- Racism in sport is nothing to celebrate—"'Inspiring' story of triumph over racial abuse may be heart-warming for white readers but has enraged many black South Africans."
- No Foreigners: Nightclubs Accused of Racist Door Policies
- Korean cigarette firm pulls 'racist' monkey ads
- London letting agents 'refuse black tenants'
- Horrific video shows Saudi husband beating Asian man with a belt 'because he dared speak to his wife'
- Israelis gather to remember slain Rabin—"Thousands of mainly young people protest against hardliners opposed to peace with the Palestinians."
- Israel orders more demolitions of Palestinian flats in Jerusalem
- John Kerry Arrives in Tel Aviv to Boost Israel-Palestine Talks
- Pink Floyd's Roger Waters Tells His Israeli Fans, It's Apartheid "Clear And Simple"
- This Land is Mine—An animated history.
- Russia's Alexei Navalny's sentence suspended on appeal—"A Russian appeals court has upheld opposition leader Alexei Navalny's conviction for embezzlement, but suspended his jail sentence, allowing him to go free."
- Putin targets Dagestan insurgents as Olympics loom
- Pussy Riot: Tolokonnikova 'out of sight' since jail move—Got moved to Siberia?
- President Putin signs law requiring terrorists' relatives to pay for damages
- VIPs join T-shirt protest of Russia's anti-gay law
- Rioting protesters return to Brazil streets
- Rio Police Officer Is Indicted for Torture While Lecturing on 'Smart Policing' in New York NYT
- Policial forja flagrante durante protesto no Centro do Rio—Rough translation: Police caught in the act planting explosives in protester's bag.
- "Qatar detained two Germans who filmed World Cup labour conditions—"Pair say they were detained for 27 hours after filming working conditions of labourers from balcony of hotel."
- 'Stranded' footballer Zahir Belounis told he can leave Qatar—"The 33-year-old footballer had been unable to leave the Gulf state following a pay dispute against club side El Jaish."
- Americans Jailed for Months in Qatar After Daughter's Death—"Supporters described the case as a combination of flawed or nonexistent evidence, ethnic prejudice and extreme cultural misunderstandings." NYT
- Global food supply at severe risk from climate change, warns leaked study by UN-created panel
- Top climate change scientists' letter to policy influencers
- An Open Letter to President Faust—"As Harvard students, we understand that America's legal and democratic institutions have broken down. The fossil fuel industry, like the tobacco industry before it, has pursued a corrupt agenda of misinformation and political lobbying designed to prevent scientific consensus from informing public policy."
- Let science control climate study plan
- No, We Are NOT in a Climate "Pause"
- Tea party Republicans are biggest climate change deniers, new Pew poll finds WaPo
- Potential Senate candidate David Barton explains how abortion caused climate change—"'We opened a door that lost God's protection over our environment,' said the Christian historian." Salon
- U.S. power to shape global Web seen undermined by NSA spying—"Revelations about the scale of U.S. spying on the Internet have badly damaged the country's negotiating power in international talks on cyberspace regulation and law enforcement, analysts and industry leaders said at a conference on Tuesday."
- Google chairman: NSA spying on our data centres 'outrageous'—"Eric Schmidt says company has lodged complaints with NSA, White House and Congress as criticism hardens in Silicon Valley."
- WaPo to gov't: Our story on NSA Google spying was true, here's proof
- Shouting '9/11' in a Crowded Internet—"Why the NSA's 'we keep you safe from terrorists' rationale is bogus." Foreign Policy
- NSA official cites 'stop and frisk' in effort to explain searches of phone records
- Patrick Leahy: NSA 'can't keep our secrets'—And shouldn't be trusted with them. Politico
- Surprise! Privacy oversight board suggests NSA data mining be curtailed—"An independent review board has recommended that Congress reduce the length of time the NSA can keep record." Salon
- Brazil Admits It Spied On U.S. Diplomats—Awkward.
- UK privacy group wants Level 3 to address allegations of spying cooperation—"Privacy International is pushing for more disclosure from a top international telco."
- China discovers that pollution makes it really hard to spy on people—Silver lining on the smog?
- Apple takes strong privacy stance in new report, publishes rare "warrant canary"—"Apple has never received an order under Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act."
- Swiss telco's cloud aims to draw customers who are fearful of spying—"Swisscom's data storage may attract foreign companies wary of NSA."
