Nigeria is now the world leader in extreme poverty.

One of the things people need to do in such a situation is stop having children. We ought to donate reliable birth control.

A Mexican woman reports on 11 months in immigration prison. Her report describes many forms of cruelty, and she says that her children show lasting effects of trauma.

A US judge halted deportation of families reunified by the US.

Economic modeling studies suggest that a carbon tax would boost the economy by reducing global heating. Some tax systems are more effective than others.

Andrew Farotade's case shows what the UK's "hostile environment for immigrants" means in practice.

I don't think it is mere imperfection that leads officials to make so many mistakes — always to the immigrants' detriment -- nor that it is a coincidence that they have to bankrupt themselves trying to get those mistakes corrected. I think officials designed this scheme, knowing that it would chase out lots of immigrants and that they could get away with that all they were doing was carrying out laws and that each expulsion was justified.

The officials who planned this didn't do it from mere spite, although they may feel some. Surely they were directed from higher up to increase the frequency of expulsions and "Don't tell us how."