Erdoğan plans to set up special courts to prosecute the thousands of people accused of supporting the coup.

It is not clear whether this will be limited to soldiers who actually participated, whom it is legitimate to prosecute, or include the tens of thousands of people who were quickly fired for supposed associations with Gülen. Even if they really supported Gülen, which is not certain, most of them surely had no part in the coup.

Obama made more funds available to help some people install solar power systems.

Thai thugs arrested the wife of a British journalist who criticizes the royal family, as she was visiting her Thai relatives.

She didn't have anything to do with her husbands publications, but threatening someone's wife must be effectively chilling.

Peter Thiel told Republicans he is proud to be gay.

The anti-gay positions of the Republican Party do not bother him. That is rational, for a person lacking in empathy. He must figure he can always buy the support of Republicans for him personally, and he feels no solidarity with gay people (or anyone) that is not as rich as he is.

Oliver Stone Links Pokémon Go to Totalitarianism During Privacy Debate.