The Mexican state couldn't bear the scandal of trying soldiers who murdered civilian prisoners, so it has stopped releasing information about such cases.

We must seize the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of Bernie Sanders. Being cautious will at best continue the status quo, whose nature is to keep getting worse.

Awareness of general surveillance leads people to self-censor their dissenting opinions.

Wisconsin's voter-ID law called for a public education campaign so that voters would know how to comply. But the Republican legislature disregarded that and never appropriated funds for it.

No surprise. After all, the real purposes of these bills is precisely to bar poor, old, minority and student voters from voting.

Some US states have laws to boycott companies that boycott Israel, or even decide not to have subsidiaries in Israel.

When Massachusetts adopted a boycott of companies that did business in Burma, the US government decided that state purchasing boycotts were prohibited by the WTO. I wonder if that will be enforced in this issue too. However, I think that states should have the right to boycott for any criteria.