Will Bezos, as owner of the Washington Post, stand up to US pressure to conceal government wrongdoing? Not if Amazon is any guide.

Ladar Levison says he may face prosecution for shutting down Lavabit.

Beyond Keystone XL: three other controversial pipelines.

4000 US women were forced to have babies in 2008 because they could not scrape together the money for an abortion until it was too late.

The figure will have risen since then because so many more Americans have become poor.

Women who cannot afford an abortion can't afford to raise children either.

US cities are sending SWAT teams for noise complaints and other matters where violence is not particularly likely.

That tends to cause violence.