The TransMountain pipeline has had yet another oil spill. This has happened at least 80 times.

If that spill happened in your town, or its river, you'd call it large. Compared with the amount of oil the pipeline carries, it is tiny.

But the spills remind us that the oil which does not spill is likely to be burnt — and that endangers the whole world.

Philippine journalist Maria Ressa, editor of the dissenting web site Reppler, was sentenced to prison for an article published in 2012, under a law of criminal libel.

A law that makes libel a crime is always unjust; it is a fine tool for crushing dissent.

Protesters pulled down Jefferson Davis's statue in Richmond, Virginia, which was the capital of the Confederacy.

Good riddance — Davis did nothing to deserve admiration from people who are not right-wing extremists.

Lukashenko, the dictator of Belarus, is facing aroused public opposition and arrested one opposition candidate already.

Italy decided to overlook Egypt's murder of Italian student Giulio Regeni and sell arms to Egypt's military rulers anyway.