Erdoğan, ruling by decree, has shut 1000 private schools arbitrarily. Hospitals, universities and charities have been arbitrarily closed too.

Basically, he has abolished rule of law and human rights in Turkey.

Trump's daughter used her appearance at the Republican Convention as a marketing opportunity.

Following the influence of her father, apparently. She also followed him in spouting unbelievable claims about what he would do for the American people.

Ieshia Evans described the persistent harassment by the thugs that inspired her to go to Baton Rouge and protest the killing Alton Sterling.

Thugs continued that system of persecution when they arrested her there for standing on the sidewalk. She was standing there to criticize them, and they think they have a license to mistreat people for that.

Israeli extremists condemn the presentation on Israeli Army radio of a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, which presents rage against the occupation of Palestine. The line quoted seems perfectly reasonable to me, for anyone who is oppressed.

The fundamental, repeated distortion of Israel's Arab-haters is that resentment against the occupation is no different from Hitler's antisemitism. This is why we must be very careful to study campaigns against antisemitism to exclude opposition to the occupation from their targets.

Trump cheated a painting contractor of $34,000 for work done. Now a court has put a $300,000 lien on one of Trump's properties to pay the contractor and his fees.

This is what the real Trump looks like.