As New York's incarceration rate falls, the city is casting around for smaller jails to copy On June 7th Layleen Polance, a 27-year-old transgender woman, was found dead in her cell at Rikers Island Jail. She was being held on $500 bail for a misdemeanour prostitution offence and the lowest-level drug charge, and she wa being kept in solitary confinement for fighting. The death was not unusual i..
And there are plenty more misleading words it should ban The European Union gets a lot of flak. All right, it isn't literally blasted with anti-aircraft fire, but you know what we mean. One ongoing battle (OK, nobody died) involves the use of words. Earlier this year, the European Parliament's agriculture committee voted to prohibit the terms "burger", "sausage", "escalope" and "steak" to descri..
After an opposition victory in Istanbul, rumours swirl of a ruling-party split What did he think he was playing at? When Turkey's autocractic president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, strong-armed his country's electoral watchdog into annulling the result of a mayoral election his party had lost in March, it looked like an obvious blunder. Surely, many observers thought, the people of Istanbul would furi..