The NAACP has voted to oppose charter schools: they generally are not an improvement.

It is no accident that "wars" on crime and drugs provide an excuse to vilify (and sometimes kill) blacks. Nixon and his men planned that explicitly.

The War on Pain Sufferers is hitting hard outside the wealthiest countries.

Assad has offered civilians in Aleppo "safe passage" out, but they are afraid of being killed if they accept the offer. They also fear they will never be allowed to return.

Dareen Tatour is a Palestinian poet, formerly little known, who has become internationally famous because Israel has put her on trial for posting subversive poetry.

The supposedly criminal poem calls on Palestinians to "resist". It is not specific about how. (Here is a translation.)

A free country does not prosecute people for stating opinions like this.