The ACLU reports that SWAT teams are used nowadays mainly for minor matters when the targets are nonwhite.

Towns acquire military weapons for thugs in the name of "protecting" people from danger scenarios that are theoretically possible but hardly ever happen. The consequence is to expose us to real danger.

It's the same with stationing thugs in schools.

Many countries systematically persecute Christians.

Most US Republicans still believe Dubya's lies that were excuses for attacking Iraq, and reading corrections of these lies only reinforces their beliefs.

They are, in effect, insane.

Striking platinum miners in South Africa have won a raise.

Global heating and overfishing threaten irreparable damage to the ocean.