| Cliven Bundy case: How big a problem is prosecutorial misconduct? Posted: 11 Jan 2018 01:31 PM PST ![Cliven Bundy case: How big a problem is prosecutorial misconduct?]( "Cliven Bundy case: How big a problem is prosecutorial misconduct?") Cliven Bundy wanted to walk out of the courtroom in his jail jumpsuit and ankle shackles. US District Judge Gloria Navarro dismissed the case, which related to an April 2014 standoff with federal officers seeking to impound Mr. Bundy's cattle, "with prejudice" this week – meaning prosecutors cannot retry the case on the same charges. "The court has found a universal sense of justice has been violated" by prosecutors who withheld and misrepresented vast quantities of evidence, she wrote.
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| A pang of conscience in Myanmar Posted: 11 Jan 2018 11:27 AM PST ![A pang of conscience in Myanmar]( "A pang of conscience in Myanmar") If coming clean about one's mistakes is a first step toward remorse, Myanmar's military deserves praise for a rare moment of honesty. On Jan. 10, the country's top brass admitted its security forces murdered 10 Rohingya Muslims last September and buried them in a mass grave. Over the past year, the military has driven more than 650,000 Rohingya refugees from Rakhine State into Bangladesh.
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| The rabbi and the rapper: what they see in old Ladino love songs Posted: 11 Jan 2018 09:56 AM PST ![The rabbi and the rapper: what they see in old Ladino love songs]( "The rabbi and the rapper: what they see in old Ladino love songs") The Orthodox rabbi from Seattle and the rapper from Mexico believe they have stumbled upon a secret. Romansas, songs of love and other subjects the Jews from Spain and Portugal carried with them and continued to sing for five centuries after their expulsion from Iberia, are not stories of human romance, but are metaphors for the tragedy of forced exile. "A whole people who suffered so much after an expulsion, and you are telling me they don't want to vent a little bit?" fumes Rabbi Simon Benzaquen. "Where did they do that?
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| In Namibia's abortion debate, echoes of a repressive history Posted: 11 Jan 2018 09:04 AM PST ![In Namibia's abortion debate, echoes of a repressive history]( "In Namibia's abortion debate, echoes of a repressive history") The president's voice came booming in through the open window of Rosa Namises' house, crackling over the speakers from the soccer stadium next door. For Namises, an activist who hoped independence would mean the chance to reform Namibia's strict abortion law, it was confirmation of something she'd long feared. Now, if she advocated for abortion rights, it wouldn't just be an affront to social norms.
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