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An opinion column in the New York Times by Samaritan's Purse president Franklin Graham has surprised many human rights and religious liberty advocates in the United States and around the world.  Responding to a then-pending arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court f...

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Because I have way too many browser tabs open. Mexican drug lord hit men dress up like a SWAT team to carry out an execution in Phoenix. The rest of the story is just damned scary. But remember, the violence means we’re winning! Photos of a long-shuttered child development center in Maryland. ...

Literal treatment of Billy Idol’s “White Wedding.” Median home price in Detroit falls to $7,500. No, that isn’t a typo. It’s a deal! Ryan Grim has more on Eric Holder and medical marijuana raids. The Wire’s creator and former Baltimore Sun crime reporter David Sim...

Someone in a comments thread below linked to this thread on a police site, which began shortly after the botched raid on the home of Berwyn Heights, Maryland Mayor Cheye Calvo last summer. Some of the responses are . . . disturbing. I blame gay marriage! I acutally have no idea what’s going on...

Before I left for Rwanda to write As We Forgive , I was reading a book called The Keys to My Neighbor’s House, by journalist Elizabeth Neuffer, who covered the atrocities of both Bosnia and Rwanda. She writes about returning to interview perpetrators. When I read this I couldn’t get it out of my...

British authorities remove kids from parents because of one boy’s leg fractures that “could only have been caused by physical abuse.” Child later determined to have rare form of scurvy; no abuse. Court says, “Oops. Sorry. But it’s too late. We already gave your kids to ...

Britain's role in the secret abduction of terror suspects came under intense new scrutiny with the return to the UK of Binyam Mohamed yesterday after more than four years in Guantánamo Bay. Senior MPs said they intended to pursue ministers and officials over what they knew of his ill-treatment and ...

For 30 years I have been travelling to unfree places, from East Germany to Burma, and writing about them in the belief that I was coming from one of the freest countries in the world. I wanted people in those places to enjoy more of what we had. In the last few years, I have woken up - late in the d...