The charges against Kiera Wilmot were dropped, but she remains expelled from school for no good reason. She writes about the consequences, including going to a school that wastes the time of any intelligent student.

I hope she learns to feel more indignation.

"Zero tolerance" means declaring rigidity the highest principle.

US citizens: call for continued protection of wolves.

Members of Femen were arrested for a topless protest at the "justice" ministry in Tunisia.

The charges are a clear sign of tyranny.

Ireland will require plain packages for cigarettes.

The arguments against this measure are full of obvious holes; they will convince only those who don't want to think carefully about them.

Sireen Khudiri Sawafteh has been arrested without access to a lawyer, because Israel considers her Facebook page a "danger to security".