I have no sympathy for Maxwell. That said, her custody level and appropriate institution should be based on her risk levels. Our system, for better or worse, proscribes the loss of freedom as punishment. In other words, folks are sent to prison as punishment, not for punishment.

Unfortunately, an independent journalist is often nothing more than a blogger...

Wait for corporate amerika to try to use the 13th Amendment to put them all to work. Arbeit macht frei.

In the end, about the only way to become a billionaire is to view people as objects to be exploited. Just another resource from which one can extract wealth.

You missed some zeroes on his net worth...

Ironic that an unelected bureaucrat is bemoaning unelected judges. Miller didn't even have to get Senate approval.

When was the last time a pedophile admitted guilt without being forced to?

I'm sorry to hear this Starr. Take care of yourself.

He was not deposed.

NATO has been on life support wince Trump took over. They need to prepare as if the US is an enemy, not an ally.

What new questions? Bombing boats, invading capitols and kidnapping political leaders are all illegal and unconstitutional.

Where is the irony in a plea to LISTEN to a story about the death of reading?

History will not be kind to Roberts. Few other justices in the history of the court have ever created rulings out of whole cloth like he did with the Presidential immunity question (just one example).

If God sent Trump, it was as a test. So far evangelical Christians seem to be failing...

So are people just now waking up to this? Or just the media? Privilege, from the Latin privus + lex, literally "private law". It's been a thing for a couple thousand years...at least...

nothing can be said about just how tacky this is.

Hopefully BBC will take a stand, unlike US media outlets have done.

US negotiators appear to work for Russia. On a side note, Ukraine's willingness to drop NATO membership for EU security guarantees is actually a forward looking strategy what with NATO being on life support. Europe will need mutual defense pacts, and Ukraine aims to get in on the ground floor.

Yep. The Roberts court will go down in history as the most corrupt and partisan ever.

We can now add Piracy to the list of crimes committed by this administration

Stranded on the ocean holding on to the upside down half of a boat. At what point does trying to right it become a crime worthy of summary execution?

That's not how it works with Trump. He keeps denying there is a problem until it's so big he can claim it's somebody else's problem and walks away from it - just like he has done with every casino, where bankruptcy became the lending banks' problem.

I am shocked!