A teacher in Kansas showed a film in class to open students' eyes to what it feels like to be bullied for homosexuality has faced bullying from right-wing parents , but has decided not to resign.

Bravo! Resigning would endorse the bullies' position.

Who Will the U.S. Declare President of Haiti This Time?

A perverse law requires the US government to keep at least 34,000 possibly-unauthorized immigrants in prison at any time, regardless of whether there is any good reason to do so.

The motive for this law seems to be to assure the profits of private prisons.

Hundreds of prisoners in one of these private prisons are on hunger strike. The prison company says there is no hunger strike, but the leaders of the supposedly nonexistent strike are being punished with solitary confinement, persistent cold, isolation from their families, etc.

These prisoners have not been convicted of a crime, and some will win appeals and be granted US residency. Although the prison executives' motive for punishing them for not eating is obvious, they have no grounds to do so.

Facebook found another social network to be a source of spam links, so it banned all mention of that site's name anywhere.

The whole staff of the Elsevier's paywalled journal Lingua have quit to start a new libre journal .