Assad's forces are systematically bombing hospitals in Ghouta.

They have done this sort of thing before.

Debt collectors regularly put unsuspecting debtors in jail, even for debts as little as two dollars.

Oxfam has programs that teach girls how they can live without being prostitutes.

That's the only effective way to help them. As long as they need the money from prostitution, punishing them or their customers does not help them.

For the same reason, I think it is a mistake to fuss about whether Oxfam staff hire some of those prostitutes. It's a distraction from effective help, such as these programs.

Mattis said that the Department of Defense has no evidence proving that Assad dropped sarin gas bombs.

This confirms what Seymour Hersch said about the alleged attack in Khan Sheikhoun.

Unsurprisingly, allowing company staff to do some of the inspection in pork plants makes inspection faster, cheaper, and less effective at preventing possible food poisoning.

US meat inspection is generally rushed and shoddy. That suits the meat processors, and they have lobbied hard for it.