The thug who beat up Floyd Dent in Inkster, near Detroit, faces three criminal charges.

It would be great, for once, to see a uniformed thug get punished for such crimes. But it won't be easy: many in the criminal justice system have surrendered their honor to the desire for a good cooperative relationship with the thugs.

The Missouri National Guard, in reacting to protests in Ferguson, officially referred to protesters as "enemy forces".

That's what you'd expect the forces of a government of occupation to say about the occupied people.

Don't confuse trafficking people with smuggling people.

A cook in the (outsourced) US Senate cafeteria is on strike. He has to work 70 hours a week and still needs food stamps, so low is the pay of the company that has the contract.

It is not easy to convince men in Sierra Leone to stop transmitting Ebola virus through sex.