Gayle Newland has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for having sex with a woman while pretending to be male.

This verdict seems totally absurd to me. What next? Will people be sentenced to prison for having sex while pretending to be rich? While pretending to be blonde?

The US government is considering a ban on smoking in public housing.

Tobacco is death, and I implore tobacco smokers to quit; but it is wrong to ban people from smoking in their homes.

The Afghan army and Iraqi army and Syrian rebel army that the US spent millions to build turned out to be as corrupt and phony as the construction projects it paid for.

ACLU: Thanks to Snowden, we are making slow progress against massive state surveillance.

When black Americans deal with a thug, their chance of experiencing abuse from the thug is twice that of white Americans.