US medical professionals are now organizing for gun control in defiance of a contemptuous statement by the NRA.

Gilded Giving: How Philanthropy Dominated by Super-Rich Threatens Democracy.

It's no longer just children who are being kept too dependent. No longer just adolescents. Now universities are doing it, too.

Some companies are dropping their mandatory arbitration requirements for sexual harassment claims.

That's a step forward, but what about all the other kinds of issues? Pressuring workers go to an arbitrator (that generally favors the employer) to defend their rights is a way of weakening those rights.

It should be illegal for companies to make agreements by which workers are required to use arbitration instead of a court for any kind of issue whatsoever.

Asia Bibi Family Being Hunted 'House to House' in Pakistan.

The most horrible aspect is that the court might "reconsider" and decide to execute her after all.

It may well be best for the UK not to say whether it has offered her asylum — especially if it has done so. Her whole family may need a new identity, keeping secret which country they have actually gone to.