The Onion: Mike Pompeo made a secret visit to North Korea, and defected.

If only he would do so; he couldn't do as much harm to Americans there as he can in the US.

The mother and father of a refugee family are both in Australia, but the government forbids them to live together. Meanwhile two of their children are stuck on Nauru alone.

Once a government adopts cruelty as a goal, the cruelty naturally comes to override every principle of decency, mercy, or justice.

Varoufakis: the prediction in the Communist Manifesto, that capital would own and control all aspects of life everywhere, seems to be coming true today, 150 years after.

State control of the means of production might be OK, but state control of the means of surveillance will not make them safer.

"Lose one form, and you lose cancer treatment and your liberty –- lose a generation’s forms, and you’re the effing PM."

The UN has accused the Burmese army in a report presented to the Security Council.