Children as young as 5 cross into the US from Mexico alone, and are treated horribly by the US border patrol.

Tibetan film-maker Dhondup Wangchen was freed after 6 years in prison for making a movie of interviews with Tibetans.

The US imprisons a large fraction of teenagers for minor "crimes" such as not going to school.

The US would rather imprison teenagers than educate them; the school-to-prison pipeline feeds this prison-to-crime pipeline.

Perhaps it makes inhumane plutocratic rational sense. The plutocratic state sees the non-rich as nothing but instruments for the rich to use. A large fraction of the population is no longer useful to them as free workers, but it still finds them useful if forced into slave labor. The system has evolved to convert many youths into criminals so it can imprison them again as adults and make them work for a pittance.

A Ukrainian film director who was in Crimea when Putin's forces took it over is being prosecuted on absurd charges, Putin style.

A proposal to require US states to select legislative districts through a nonpolitical system.

Gerrymandering undermines democracy, and these committees might be a good idea. I am not sure the federal government has the power to impose this on states.

However, it is a mistake to say that gerrymandering allows "politicians to draw their own districts". Rather, state legislatures draw the districts for the House of Representatives. They sometimes do this so as to kick a real hero such as Dennis Kucinich out of Congress.