Judge Posner said his ruling in favor of voter ID laws was wrong.

The ruling, which disenfranchised over 70,000 black voters in one state still threatens US democracy.

There are too many activities in the US which require a government-issued ID card, and this threatens to turn state driver-or-equivalent licenses into the equivalent of a national ID card.

Anti-slavery activist Andy Hall has gone on trial in Thailand as punishment for a stellar career of defending the rights of migrant workers.

Russian troops or thugs kidnaped an Estonian investigator from a customs office on Estonian territory; the former KGB now claims he was captured in Russia.

The Rise of the Warrior Cop describe the horror felt in the early US about mixing the roles of army and police, and how Nixon's "War on Dregs" started to endorse mixing them up.

The US is widening its air bombing intervention in Iraq.

As long as it remains limited to giving close air support to a local ground army fighting in a non-urban battlefield, the harm to civilians will be limited too. If it goes beyond that, it could become the sort of hatred-generator that drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen have been.