Texas Woman Jailed for Alleged Theft of $1 — And Being Unable to Post $12,000 Bail.

The owners of a corporation through which they enslaved workers from Lithuania have been ordered to compensate those workers personally.

That's good, but I hope that anyone doing such things nowadays would be convicted of a crime.

See the enslaved workers page.

A white man is accused of burning down three churches in Louisiana that were used by mostly black congregations.

President Clinton's welfare "reform" law has done what progressives predicted at the time: it has greatly increased extreme poverty.

You can't reduce dependence for people who can barely survive by yanking away their support. That's like trying to reduce dependence on wheelchairs by confiscating wheelchairs.

Glenn Greenwald: The U.S. Government’s Indictment of Julian Assange Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedoms.

The Assange Prosecution Threatens Modern Journalism.

Here is an interview with Glenn Greenwald which NPR unexplainedly lost.