Some South Korean political leaders say Bolton is the main obstacle to peace with North Korea, calling him a "land mine".

The US Supreme Court ruled that companies can stop their workers from filing class-action lawsuits.

This means that they can't take any action about frequent abuses that hit many of workers but not enough for each one to be able to afford to take separate action.

A US high school punishes students that fail to smile while walking between classes.

Students have a ready-made answer when pressed to talk about why they don't smile: "It's because you are harassing me."

They could also try putting on exaggerated phony smiles.

The discussion of a bullying incident refers to a "school resource officer", which is a bureaucratic name for a thug that is likely to send your child to prison for some minor matter. The last thing you need in school is a thug that can arrest students.

A US border thug held and threatened two bilingual US citizens, suspecting them of some crime because they spoke to each other in Spanish.

Washington DC is full of stingray-like devices, tracking various people's portable phones on behalf of organizations unknown, and from foreign embassies.