Turkish writer Aslı Erdoğan has been released from jail but still faces political charges.

Oil companies are blocking research into the effect of spills of diluted bitumen into the sea, by keeping the composition of the diluent fluid secret.

I don't believe in prohibing companies from keeping secrets, not in general. But companies are not persons and they are not entitled to human rights. Any time their secrecy interferes with some public need, the state should require publication. The companies that don't like this are welcome to shut down or go away -- good riddance to them.

Faux News wants to eliminate food stamps because allegedly .1% (one part in a thousand) gets fraudulently put into buying drugs.

When dooH niboR wants an excuse to hurt the poor, the smallest excuse will suffice.

The most effective way to radicalize Muslims is to display bigotry toward them.

The new American segregation, like the American segregation of 50 years ago, is created by a system of institutionalized bigotry.