The private lives and sexual choices of fully formed adults are usually very complicated and thus impossible to understand — and certainly impossible to judge — without wallowing around in the most intimate details, none of which are any of your business.
Richard Glossip, the lead plaintiff in <em>Glossip v. Gross</em>, the Supreme Court decision that legalized a controversial form of lethal injection, now faces death — but he may well be innocent.
A new book by Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan reveals the subtle as well as forceful pressures that persuade Russian technology companies to comply with government censorship.
Solitary confinement in California’s state prisons was drastically reduced, but the practice continues in county jails — and they’re not prepared for it.
“The idea is that drug usage, if there is a harm, is only self-injury, only harms the individual and thus cannot be the object of state punishment.”
Kurdish militias have provided a rare bright spot in the battle against the Islamic State. But they're being left high and dry as Turkey flexes its political muscle in Washington and applies its military might in the region.
“Many of the questions we are hoping that the documents will answer involve filling out the picture,” says Dror Ladin, a staff attorney with the ACLU.
If Hillary Clinton is already this hawkish while trying to fend off Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, imagine what she'll be doing and saying in the general election or, worse, while in the Oval Office as “Commander-in-Chief.”
In the midst of a very effective speech in defense of an important deal with Iran, Obama proudly summarizes a disgraceful part of his legacy: one of militarism and aggression.
Relatives of the key witness who sent Richard Glossip to die say the state got the wrong story. Yet Oklahoma plans to execute him on September 16.
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