The US "Department of Justice" is shirking its duties by not prosecuting CIA torturers.

Some oil companies ask for a "global price on carbon", but if this means a global system for trading permits, we see from the failure of the European example that that approach is too easy to game.

US border thugs regularly turn back refugees from Central America, illegally denying them a chance to ask for asylum.

When they come from Honduras, the US is partly responsible for the conditions that drove them to flee.

When the US released Younous Chekkouri from imprisonment in Guantanamo, the soldiers blindfolded and chained him for 10 hours of transport.

That is a strange way to treat someone after concluding there was no reason to imprison him in the first place.

Now Mr Chekkouri is imprisoned in Morocco.

Human rights organizations address how far a person's religious freedom should apply when carrying out functions to serve the public.