麻豆社

Protests spread across the United States after a grand jury decided not to charge a white policeman who shot dead an unarmed black youth in the St Louis suburb of Ferguson. How can this happen under a black president? A veteran black journalist says discrimination has been getting worse, not better, for decades, and African-Americans have not been putting enough pressure on President Obama.

Also, the problem with violent Islamist insurgencies in two of the most important countries in Africa, the British government tries to strike the delicate balance between security and civil liberties, why Saudi Arabia might profit from low oil prices, and we get to say "play it, Sam" as the piano from the tear-jerker movie Casablanca goes up for auction.