The Surveillance State, You, and the Time Traveling Detectives.

There is no scientific reason for killing whales — the same information can be obtained through methods that don't hurt them.

Zimbabwe women report interference with their voting, and threats.

Turkish journalists were sentenced to long prison terms for supposed participation in a conspiracy for a military coup.

It is not implausible, a priori, that Turkish generals were planning a coup. Turkey has seen such coups before. To claim journalists were involved in the conspiracy makes it implausible.

The Australian government is taking many aboriginal children away from their parents because of problems that are caused by poverty. Meanwhile, it cuts the assistance that would help aboriginal families cope.

At one point during 2012, 13,299 aboriginal children had been removed from their families.

These statistics say that about 2/3 are placed with relatives or indigenous people, but it is still a large rate of taking children away.