The euro is an engine and excuse for reducing wages all across Europe. For any problem, the euro-zone plutocrats have the same answer: wipe out workers' rights so they will get less.

Turkish journalist Tolga Tanis, a reporter covering the US, is being threatened with prosecution by Erdogan for criticizing him in a book.

The book is in Turkish, published in Turkey, but that is no excuse for this.

New York City prison thugs will be subject to new measures so that they stop routinely attacking teenage prisoners.

The best opportunity to improve human health in this century is to cut back on fossil fuels.

Some courts in the US have found that adopting techniques from social work is better than traditional simple punishment for getting convicts to stop committing crimes.

Partly this is because some of those accused are accused of victimless crimes, such as taking drugs or homelessness. Social work and other kinds of help are what they needed. It's a shame that the only way they could get this help is by being convicted of a crime.