Tobacco companies and oil companies jointly develop the system of science denialism, starting in the 1950s.

Due to welfare cuts, working Britons can't afford the child care they need in order to work.

If enabling parents to work costs a lot of public money, maybe it would be better to pay them to stay home with their children.

Russia Asks For The Impossible With Its New Surveillance Laws. Since every company has to fail to carry them out, every company will be vulnerable to arbitrary demands for anything else.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been cleared for release from Guantanamo prison.

This doesn't legitimize imprisonment without trial of any of the prisoners in Guantanamo.

Tim Kaine is making obeisance to Wall Street, perhaps angling to be chosen as Clinton's running mate.

A vice president has little political power, and the choice of a running mate is but a gesture. Gestures will not be enough to raise my opinion of Clinton. I hope she does not choose a progressive senator, since that would be a substantive loss for progressives.