For millions of Americans who are not in prison, home is a prison, due to an explosion of monitoring, sex-offender registries, and other virtual forms of imprisonment.

An important Guatemalan thug has been sentenced to life in prison (in effect) for mass murder of protesters in 1980.

This is equivalent to a life sentence; he is surely old enough that he won't live 30 years more.

The coast of the Mediterranean is being engulfed by tourist resorts and cities. In France and Italy, more than 50% of the Mediterranean coast is paved.

Uber hopes to buy the approval of cities by collecting ride data for them.

Even if this reporting doesn't give personal data on individuals, that won't change the fact that Uber collects that data and can make it available to the state in other ways. We must not accept Uber as a substitute for taxis and car services that can be used anonymously. Please don't do business with Uber.

A German journalist in China reports about the arrest of his assistant, and how the Chinese thugs insisted that China has rule of law while disregarding Chinese law completely.