Ohio voters defeated a corrupt proposal to legalize marijuana, perhaps because they didn't like the corrupt aspect.

Australia says it is unhappy about the multiple human rights violations of Nauru.

If Australia were serious about this, it could easily make Nauru change its policies. I suspect that Australia has encouraged these policies so as to cover up the treatment meted out to the refugees Australia sends to Nauru.

Renewable energy not only helps avoid disaster, it also helps spread the wealth .

British journalists were sentenced to short prison terms for making a documentary in Indonesia that the Indonesian government didn't like. Their local employees might be jailed for years.

In the name of avoiding inconveniences, public protests in Jakarta have been limited to unusual "free speech zones" and required to keep quiet.

Shame on Indonesia for this censorship.

Iran admits sentencing two poets to around 10 years in prison for "insulting religion".

If you want to see a worse insult against Iran's religion, their sentence is one.

If their appeals are not successful, it may be time for an international poetry campaign to insult Iran's religion for its censorship.