It was obvious that Wang Yam's trial was a recipe for injustice. Evidence for his defense was ignored.

Now a European court is considering whether he deserves a new trial.

A secret trial is an unjust trial, an opportunity to impose a political outcome and call it "justice".

Kris Kobach, Republican candidate for governor of Kansas, has been involved for a decade with organized white-supremacist bigots.

Outrage over the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi helps focus the world's attention on every level of Salafi Arabia's repression and injustice, and on all the ways other countries support it.

The long-term way to weaken the vicious monarchy there is with a carbon tax, that will make the country's oil lose commercial value, while slowing global heating.

Some of the refugees that Papua New Guinea imprisoned for Australia got badly sick and were being treated in a hospital in Port Moresby, capital of Papua New Guinea. But an international summit is about to take place there, so Papua New Guinea sent the patients back to Manus, interrupting their treatment.

Supposedly this is to make space in the hospital in case delegates get sick. I suspect, though, that Australia demanded this so that the people attending the summit can't talk with any of the refugees.

Air Pollution: Everything You Should Know About a Public Health Emergency.

I think the word "emergency" is ill-chosen because it means a transitory problem. This problem could go on indefinitely until we correct it.