Hypersonic weapons now being developed by the US, China and Russia would put the world on a hair trigger and could even be mistaken for a nuclear attack.

It would be smarter to sign a treaty to ban them, but the US government generally refuses, assuming it will have the advantage.

Russia admitted its soldiers were in Ukraine, and reporters trying to investigate reported secret graves in Russia of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine were attacked.

Wisconsin Governor Walker actively raised funds for supposedly independent groups that were going to use the funds to promote voting for him.

How AT&T buys the support of grass-roots organizations for its campaign against net neutrality.

A Florida thug dumped a mostly paralyzed man onto the floor by tipping his wheelchair.

This incident is unusual, both for callousness, and because the thug's superior condemned it and apologized. It is not a basis for judging thugs in general.

But I think it is the extreme manifestation of an attitude that many thugs have in a less egregious form.