A Saudi prince has defected and describes how the regime persecutes anyone that calls for human rights.

Africa's richest woman is the daughter of the dictator of Angola — and not by coincidence.

A merger between two large airlines in the US is being blocked because an executive admitted the goal was to raise fares.

We are fortunate that these executives confessed the truth of their merger scheme, but in the future there will be other executives and they will learn from this mistake. We must not depend on such confessions in order to thwart them.

Oligopoly (just a few major sellers) starts to cause some of the same harms as monopoly (one single seller). Therefore, any merger that would create a company having over 8% of some market should be blocked automatically; and if it would have more than 4% of some market, it should face stiff disincentives.

Ever since New York State was ordered to stop keeping prisoners in solitary confinement if they had serious mental illness, there has been a mysterious trend to diagnose prisoners with mild mental illness instead. At least one seriously ill prisoner was driven to suicide by solitary confinement.

I have no easy answer for what to do with people like Amir Hall. However, any solution probably involves spending more money. If we end the war on drugs, and free lots of prisoners that shouldn't have been imprisoned in the first place, we could afford to care properly for those that we do need to imprison.

E-book publishers plan to use watermarks to identify who purchased a copy.

This is a further reason not to buy any e-book in a way that identifies you.