Fan Bingbing's Disappearance Shows No One Is Safe from Beijing.

I know very little about that actress, and I have no reason to conclude that the charges are political. For all I know, she might be guilty of tax evasion. Or not.

But this is not the way suspects ought to be treated.

Dubya offered Americans paths to have their student debts "forgiven", but those paths are strewn with obstacles and your chances of reaching the goal are roughly zero. Loan companies neglect to inform people of the fine print, leading them to fail.

McDonald's workers held a one-day strike against sexual harassment on the job, which they say often includes groping by supervisors.

A store sold its old servers, and the disks were sold with customers' personal data which is now being used to harm those customers.

The obvious way to try to prevent repetition of this specific problem is with a law about disposal of servers' disks.

The deeper way to fix this and many other problems caused by stores' personal data is not to allow stores to collect any. Stores should not be allowed to track their customers.

Evidence suggests many patent examiners are influenced corruptly by the prospect of future employment by businesses that get patents.

The future employment they seek is, effectively, lobbying patent examiners on behalf of those businesses.