Bahrain has banned the main Shi'a opposition group.

Some of its organizers have already been imprisoned or exiled based on absurd accusations.

Bahrain ceased even pretending to respect human rights, but the US keeps supporting the repression because it has a naval base there.

Will the attempted coup be Turkey's equivalent of the Reichstag fire, an excuse for abolition of human rights in Turkey?

It looks that way. Erdoğan has gone so far as to arrest judges of the supreme court.

The US stores nuclear weapons in Turkey. It is a dangerous place to keep them — the US should move them elsewhere.

A new law in North Carolina restricts access to video from thugs' body cameras to the point that evidence about crimes committed by thugs can be suppressed.

Sheldon Adelson wants Nevada taxpayers to pay to move the Oakland Raiders to Las Vegas.

Teams promise the public lots of benefits from having a professional sports team, and ask the public to pay for it. Then the money ends up going to insiders, and the public loses.