Maedeh Hojabri was arrested, and pressured into a public confession for posting a video of herself dancing with a nude head.

It's not clear whether the garment workers in the Ethiopia's new clothing factory make $27 a month or $40 a month (food and living quarters not furnished).

What is clear is that as long as companies can make countries compete to attract work by allowing companies to keep workers in penury, this sort of exploitation will continue.

Ethiopia's popular new leader is making many reforms. I cheer at reducing repression.

Whether privatizing some state companies is good or bad depends on what they do. It is wrong to privatize a government activity unless it sells into a highly competitive market.

Haiti is cutting subsidies for fossil fuels, so protests by the poor have broken out.

Subsidizing fossil fuels is a suicidal policy, but cuts in subsidies must be joined by increased support for the poor, so that the price increase does not crush them.

A judge ordered US agencies to reunite all refugee family groups that they split up, and the children under age 5 must be reunited by July 10. The officials are saying that they can't do this and that such hurry is "extreme".