A bittersweet return: We welcome Brittney Griner home, at a cost

Planes land on U.S. territory every day, but one particular flight touching down has been hotly anticipated for months and brings with it great news and precious cargo: WNBA star Brittney Griner, who was arrested at the Moscow airport in February on a trumped-up charge of bringing illegal drugs into the country and how now been released in a prisoner swap. Let’s be clear about something: Griner was effectively a political prisoner. Her crime — inadvertently packing a couple of cannabis-oil cartridges, which she had a medical prescription for, into her luggage when traveling to Russia — should ...