On the average, the richest .01 percent evade 1/3 of their taxes.

The US, under Obama's half-hearted support for climate protection, weakened the Paris climate agreement at every level. The world would have been better off kicking the US out at the beginning.

Now the revulsion of the rest of the world may be enough to lead to sanctions on the US fossil fuel companies, or even the US. I hope so. With pressure from the rest of the world, we Americans may be able to redirect our government towards protecting civilization.

Russians protested by reading the Russian constitution aloud in Red Square. They were arrested.

Could there be a clearer admission of tyranny than this?

China will develop a state-approved encyclopedia, a propaganda counterpart of Wikipedia. In effect, Gandapedia.

Erdoğan has decided to arrest another 3,000 dissidents, supporters of Fethullah Gülen.

It is absurd to accuse 47,000 people of participating in a coup plot. So many people can't keep a secret, the coup plotters knew that.