Solitary confinement regularly drives prisoners mad, but the US government continues to do it and to misrepresent it.

The US plans to allow fracking in the George Washington National Forest.

Trying to silence individuals considered misogynist has become a substitute for campaigning to change sexist institutions.

Netanyahu plans a "harsh" retaliation to the murder of 5 Israelis.

This harshness will be on top of the harshness of decades of Israeli occupation. The killers were retaliating for a much larger set of murders and other crimes committed against Palestinians by Israelis, together with persistent oppression.

Retaliating against them with additional crimes (house demolitions, which are illegal collective punishment) and additional persistent oppression is more likely to inspire more Palestinians to retaliate in their turn.

I suppose Netanyahu knows that.

Secret disenfranchisement lists denied Democrats 4% of the vote, and enabled the Republicans to steal control of the senate.