Large amounts of sodium cyanide were illegally stored in the warehouse that exploded at Tianjin.

The Chinese rulers say they want to punish corruption, and I think they really do; but they won't get very far while suppressing a free press.

Repressive Eritrea is so poor that even civil-war-torn South Sudan seems like a step up.

The Congress of Racial Equality, once pivotal in the civil rights movement, developed in the 1970s into a tool for the Republican Party. Since 1990 or so, it has been an astroturf resource for hire.

UN Deciding "How Best to Respond" After AT&T Helped NSA Spy on [UN] Headquarters.

Lawyers meet with opposition if they reject jurors "because they are black", so they use a range of bizarre excuses, such as "because they live in a low-income neighborhood" or "have bad posture".

Black jurors might understand how the defendant is being railroaded or had no way out.