Some nation-states have suffered what the Greeks called kakistocracy—government by the worst of men. International law can, in theory if not always in practice, keep these kakistocracies from damaging too much.

A Tennessee teenager was arrested and brought to jail with a loaded revolver hidden in her vagina Monday. […] Archer isn't the first woman to use her prison pocket to smuggle a firearm into jail, and she certainly won't be the last.

Soy flour is often added to bread as an improver. It helps the dough texture and can make the bread quite soft.

When it washed ashore in Prince William Sound, the crude came in sticky gobs, in tar balls, in what they called mousse, crude whipped to a froth in the action of the sea.