A homeless man in the UK was sentenced to 20 weeks in jail for sitting on sidewalks. The court gave the justification that people might think he was begging. How else are homeless people supposed to pay for food?

The court also fined him, which I suppose means he will have to beg later to pay the fine.

Senators proposed a bill to require border thugs to have probable cause before they can search travelers' phones. (And, I hope, their other computers.)

Asylum Seekers Are Being “Disappeared” in Private Louisiana Jails.

Natural gas is not a better replacement for coal.

Refugees dumped by Australia in Manus Island and Nauru are starting to injure and kill themselves, now that the Australian election took away their last shred of hope of refuge.