Yale had a Brazilian reporter arrested. She sought to speak to a Brazilian judge, who was in a seminar there, and who did not want to talk with her.

He doesn't have an obligation to talk with her, and Yale has no obligation to let her into a private event. But she did not try to go into the event; she only entered a building which the public was apparently welcome to enter. That was no reason to arrest her.

Thousands of Egyptians — protesters, journalists and bystanders — have been imprisoned without charges for months, and some foreigners too.

The US Joint Strike Fighter is tremendously behind schedule with big cost overruns, partly due to being ill-conceived at several levels. And it is not what the American people really need.

In the US, non-rich people accused of any sort of sexual crime get advice to make a plea bargain for "civil commitment", which in practice means indefinite imprisonment.

The repression of abortion rights in the US has created demand for underground distributors of abortion pills.

I do endorse these activities. If women can't get safe and legal abortion, at least they should be able to get this kind of help.