When Obama cited Amazon as the source of jobs in the US, he is saying that he wants Americans to have lousy precarious part-time jobs with no benefits.

Here's why you should not buy from Amazon.

The NSA director is trying to distract Americans with speculation about what some supporters of Snowden might do if the US caught him.

He hopes we will worry about this rather than about the NSA's cyber attacks against all of us.

In 2010, Thai soldiers shot unarmed protesters who had taken refuge in a temple.

The prejudice against prostitutes becomes visible when they are murdered, and again when the murder is not investigated much.

I am convinced that much of the pressure to crush prostitution, whether it be punishing prostitutes, closing brothels, or punishing customers, reflects the stigma against prostitutes. The claims that this is mean to "protect" them are hypocrisy.

A government-supported campaign to improve access to contraception has reduced Bangladesh's birth rate to roughly the replacement level.

The US should fund such campaigns in all countries with rapidly growing populations, including the US itself.