Switzerland and Denmark require refugees to surrender their property.

This is a way to select the poorest refugees.

Switzerland's special tax on refugees who start to work is not quite as bad, but I think it is better to tax people based on wealth and income, not based on being refugees.

The company that formerly managed Yosemite National Park applied for trademarks on the names of the old hotels and restaurants it was running, and is using those to force them to change their names.

This seems like extortion from the state. If it isn't a crime, it should be.

Confusion appears in the article where it uses the term "intellectual property". That term causes nothing but confusion.

Trademark law is nothing like copyright law or patent law. If you think you "understand" a statement about "intellectual property", it is a false understanding that will lead you astray.

Global heating plays a role in a rash of mass deaths of many kinds of wild animals around the globe.

The die-offs include plants, too. Millions of pine trees in the US west have been killed as global heating enabled a parasitic insect to spread there.

The EPA let months go by after it found out that the water in Flint was poisoning children.

Release of Clinton's emails show how the US government told lies about Gaddafi as an excuse for intervention in Libya, and the pliant US major media eagerly spread them without investigating them.

Officials were also aware of al-Qa'ida's presence among the rebels.

The article does not go into depth about "special ops trainers inside Libya", so I cannot judge whether this ought to be a scandal or not.