The people who clean the UK foreign ministry protested that their minimum-wage pay is too little to live in London and do the job.

The article demonstrates the harm done by subcontracting, which gives the state and other companies a way to hire people for low wages and say "we're not responsible, since we don't employ them."

A company or agency that gets workers through a subcontractor should be directly responsible for how they are treated and how much they are paid.

Navalny, after a relaxation in the terms of his house arrest, accuses Putin of using war to stay in power.

Right wing judges and officials don't want "stand your ground" laws to apply to women defending themselves from violent domestic partners.

Indeed, those laws are meant to allow white men (who dare carry guns in public) to kill black men (who know thugs would fabricate an excuse to beat them and arrest them if they carried guns in public). Helping women was never the intention.

French documentary makers are being prosecuted for filming in West Papua, where foreign journalists are not allowed.

Indonesia took over West Papua by force in the 1960s when the Dutch pulled out, and has sent large numbers of Javanese colonists. It's somewhat like China and Tibet.

Private charities are nowhere near capable of giving America's tens of millions of poor people the help they need.