An analysis of the acquittal of one thug that was involved in the killing of Freddie Gray.

The person quoted who claims that thugs are "no more or no less honest than the vast majority of witnesses" is surely mistaken: we know that they are habituated to lying in court, and that they lie as standard practice to protect each other. Other witnesses do lie but it's impossible that they lie as much as that.

I don't know enough about the situation to have an opinion about whether this particular thug was guilty.

We need to change the policies that give thugs almost 100% impunity.

Elsevier, the continual copyright aggressor, has bought SSRN where papers are posted for gratis access. There is plenty of reason to worry.

With proper antitrust laws, this purchase would have been blocked.

US retail company executives admit that the updated overtime requirement won't lead to (more) loss of jobs.

The IMF puts social spending targets into many "aid" contracts, but these are usually not actually followed, and they have little effect compared with the crushing austerity the IMF imposes.

Russia and Ukraine traded prisoners of war, which both countries had put on trial.