Bangladesh has jailed journalist Shafik Rehman for months without charges. Perhaps because he champions freedom of the press.

It's not enough for many people to know their neighborhood thugs. Thugs should be held accountable for their crimes.

The housing crisis of Silicon Valley is so bad that a Palo Alto housing official had to resign: she couldn't afford to live anywhere close enough to go to work there.

Issa Saharkhiz, journalist in Iran, has been sentenced to three years in prison for insulting the theocratic ruler of Iran.

Iran has a democracy, but the democratic parts of the state have no authority over respect for human rights.

Obama is launching a last-ditch push to impose the TPP on the US during the lame duck session, and Clinton has not yet come out against it.

Obama said to think of Clinton as four more years of him. I fear it is true. So do many others.