The trial that sentenced Carlos DeLuna to death was an example of complete contempt for justice and the rights of the accused. A proper investigation would have supported his claim of innocence, but nobody bothered to investigate.

This sort of thing (which is not unusual) is one of the reasons to abolish the death penalty, but not only that. To convict anyone of anything with such a shoddy trial, regardless of the severity of the crime, invites wrong verdicts. We should change the system so this does not happen any more.

The Great Salt Lake is rapidly shrinking, leaving a dry lake bed full of arsenic-laden sand that will blow away and poison people.

The right-wing extremist party Vox made a hardly-veiled threat of violence against the editor of El Jueves.

¡Viva El Jueves! I often need help to understand it, but once explained, I enjoy some of it.

Tories want to privatize actual medical treatment for the NHS, and issue contracts in an informal way that facilitates corruption and fails to assure competence.

Nicaragua's dictator Ortega is aiming for completeness in the repression of political opposition.