Journalists in Thailand were acquitted of the crime of "defaming the Navy" in reporting on suspicions of its involvement in human trafficking.

This is a good outcome, but the root of the problem is in making defamation a crime. Freedom of speech includes the right to offend, criticize, insult, even mock any institution, any practice, any belief, and any person.

Obama, visiting in Alaska, called for urgent action to curb global heating.

Obama is saying the right things; he should make his actions match his words.

How the apartheid government of South Africa spent millions to manipulate public opinion in the US and Europe.

Google faces accusations in India and Europe of rigging search results to favor its own sites.

It would be easy to achieve this result intentionally without explicitly writing lines of code that say "prefer this Google site". Some minor details of the Google site could raise the site's priority.

Israel was unable to stop Daniel Barenboim from conducting in Iran, but Iran's government won't let him in.