US citizens: call for an end to predatory prison phone charges.

US citizens: call on the EPA to regulate methane strictly.

If Chinese become restive, future Chinese rulers decide to attack someplace to win domestic support.

Babies in homeless families are dying in the UK.

As the government tightens the vice on the non-rich in general, some people inevitably get squeezed out the sides of the vice. It's part and parcel of what the Tories want to achieve.

Egypt's government will require women to uncover their heads in certain special circumstances.

I think limited measures of this sort are a legitimate way to discourage oppressive practices imposed by social pressure.

The article is wrong about the goddess Isis — far from being crushed by worship of Ra and turned into a demon, her cult spread along with that of her brother/husband Osiris, and then under Roman rule spread around the empire (without Osiris). It was intolerant Christianity that put an end to worship of Isis.