The Austin serial bomber's crimes might have been hate crimes, but it's not certain.

They were not terrorism, because terrorism is an explicitly political act. A mere suspected motive is not enough to make an action count as terrorism.

The bully has officially ordered the US armed forces to ban transgender people.

Courts will surely block this, at least for a while. What if it does take effect?

Americans, if you are transgender, you can serve our country better by campaigning against the bully's right-wing extremist movement (the Republican Party) than by being in the military. Being in the military makes you available for him to attack other countries. As for defending our country military, that's hardly necessary at present, since no army is going to attack the US.

If you are not transgender, all that applies to you, too.

Pipeline protesters in Canada attacked Prime Minister Trudeau because his support for the Unkinder Morgan Pipeline contradicts his pretense to be a climate defender.

Across Europe, poor people are being priced out of habitable housing.

Reports that Kushner told the acting king of Salafi Arabia which subjects to torture, based on what he saw in the very secret presidential daily briefing.