Australia's big four banks stopped investing in coal but shifted the investment into oil and gas.

The FBI's Use of Informants Is Full of Problems, but What Happened in "Spygate" Isn’t One of Them.

Denying welfare benefits, including food stamps, to poor people who were convicted of drug crimes makes them more likely to return to crime.

To try to discourage crime with punishment presupposes that everyone can get by ok without crime. In the US today, that is false for a large fraction of people.

The right-wing ruling party of Spain has lost power due to the corruption convictions of some of its leaders.

The new governing party is the Socialist Party, which has proved rather weak in confronting plutocracy, but we can hope it will eliminate some of the oppressive measures, such as making it a crime to post photos of uniformed thugs in the act of attacking people and prosecuting squatters in abandoned buildings.

A New Jersey thug punched a teenager in the head, then slammed her to the ground, after determining that she was not drunk.

For a thug to switch off a bodycam while attacking a person ought to be considered obstruction of justice. The thug should go to prison for that alone, and serve additional time for the violence itself.

As for Ms Weinman, even if she spit intentionally at the thug who had already brutalized her, that should be considered self-defense.