The massive wildfires in the US have burnt over 2000 square miles.

As we keep turning the heat up, it will get bigger. Do people want to bet on which year 20,000 square miles will burn?

Repression against services that enable sex workers to advertise hits them hard.

California has agreed to stop keeping supposed "gang leaders" in long-term solitary confinement.

The article errs in supposing that these prisoners are really associated with gangs. That is what they are accused of, but all sorts of silly criteria are used to determine who is a "gang member".

Everyone: call on Vietnam to free political prisoners in the coming amnesty.

US citizens: call on Obama to have the Attorney General reconsider the conclusion that discrimination on the basis of religion is legitimate.