Former dictator Hissène Habré of Chad, recently convicted of crimes against humanity, was installed and supported by the US. The US leaders that supported him are not on trial.

Paul Ryan says he has a new plan for poverty in the US: making more of it. Except that it isn't really new. It's the same as before.

Iran has imprisoned another visiting expatriate, Professor Homa Hoodfar.

Her family speculate that the mullahs' special thug force is using her as a pawn against president Rouhani.

Although I am not an Iranian expatriate, I still consider Iran too dangerous a place to visit. It is one of the countries I refuse to enter.

Two Palestinians shot at Israelis in a mall, killing some and wounding some. Cops shot them to disarm them, then arrested them.

Bystanders urged the cops to murder the killers, but they refused and did their duty instead. It seems these cops were police officers, not thugs. The killers will presumably stand trial.

The Register of Copyrights is supporting Hollywood's worldwide campaign to impose something even worse than the censorship-ridden DMCA takedown system. This would require computers to block fair use on internet platforms, even though nominally people would still have that right.

Fifteen years ago there was a strong campaign to pin back the wrongs of the DMCA, with some supporters in Congress. This campaign has fizzled away. The lack of a campaign for improvement weakens our resistance to this attempt to make it worse.