If the UK leaves the European Union, and desperately seeks "trade agreements" to attract business, they will involve surrendering sovereignty to business. That is much like surrendering sovereignty to the EU only with no democratic element whatsoever.

One example is that the UK will be compelled to accept low standards for food safety.

Two visions of Puerto Rico's future: renewable power and prosperity, or corporate subjugation.

Presidential candidate López Obrador in Mexico proposes to stop fighting the "war on drugs".

I think the proposed amnesty for gang leaders would not do much good, for reasons given in the article. However, legalizing drugs would do a lot of good.

Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001, and the result continues to be improvement on every dimension — except for drug dealers, whose business has declined.

Legalizing drugs would eliminate most of the fighting between Mexico's narco gangs because they would all lose most of the income that they now fight over. Likewise, it would eliminate a lot of their bribery of politicians because there would be no need to bribe them.

If you allow politicians to treat addicts with cruelty, next thing you know they will be treating minority groups, poor people and disabled people with cruelty. Those politicians win support by demonstrating cruelty towards scapegoats, and anyone that lots of people can be convinced to despise will function as a scapegoat.

The US government is pulling all available strings to make Reality Winner's trial unfair.

The troll will recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, thus endorsing Israel as an apartheid state.

The so-called "peace process" is a sham that Netanyahu uses to pretend he is willing to negotiate peace. He states publicly that he will not accept any sort of peace except the permanent apartheid state.