Republicans are winning the favor of companies that own broadcasting, with a plan to permit increased concentration of radio and TV stations.

The troll has started hand-picking which media organizations are allowed into press-manipulation sessions.

This looks like a campaign to repress and destroy journalism.

What the troll and Spicer say is unimportant. The press should ignore these press-manipulation sessions and focus on what the troll actually does, and on the leaks that show his plans.

But that doesn't mean the campaign to repress and destroy journalism is harmless.

A bigot shot two Indian men in Kansas after demanding to know their visa status.

Right-wing hatred directed at foreigners stirs up acts like this. The killer seems to have been susceptible, but such a susceptibility does not always develop into actual violence. That depends on what ideas are being trump-eted in the social environment.

US courts are starting to question whether thugs have the right to make people use fingerprints to unlock devices.

Vietnamese journalist Dang Xuan Dieu was sent into exile after five years in prison in cruel conditions.