Many journalists have been kidnaped in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Secrecy in many individual cases has hidden the size of the problem.

Mainstream US TV political shows present debates between right-wing pundits that all agree the US should launch all-out war against ISIS.

"Three things that won't defeat Isis are a kneejerk reaction to the videos of western hostages being killed, going back to the old models of dictatorship and airstrikes."

Above all, it is necessary to show Iraqi Sunnis how they can have a government they generally won't feel is their enemy.

Perhaps that requires offering to break up Iraq, so they can have their own government as long as it isn't warlike.

US citizens: if you haven't already, submit a comment to the FCC defending network neutrality.

Abbott is betting that if he repeats over and over that he did not break his campaign promises, voters will forget that he did.

US citizens: Tell the Department of Housing to stop selling off people's mortgages to the same sort of "securitized" market that screwed them.