Nazanin Zaghari is a prisoner in Iran, and her daughter is effectively a prisoner too. She can't return home except with her father, and he dares not go, fearing he too might be arrested.

Nazanin is charged with helping design a web site for protesters.

How progressives in Britain could respond to the UK's leaving the EU.

A million Britons have already asked for another referendum.

The bombastic former London mayor is likely to be the next PM of the UK.

The other likely candidate is the chief advocate of massive surveillance.

I can't judge which is worse.

The British working class, deindustrialized and impoverished, seized on the EU referendum to attack an elite that had demonstrated decades of not caring about them.

However, bollixing some of the elite will not result by itself in defeating the plutocratic elite. What they need is a party that stands for them.

The EU is getting paid back for its lack of democracy.

Not only the European Commission is undemocratic; so are the banks that the euro zone has elevated to cruel and tyrannical power as seen in Greece.

The UK government is going to great lengths to shut down a civil suit by Libyan dissidents about its participation in handing them over to Qadhafi for torture.