Conjecture: conservative Catholic officials tricked the pope into meeting with Kim Davis.

The reasons Amerindians have high rates of alcoholism are high rates of stress, trauma, and poverty.

The US Supreme Court has given companies more power by allowing them to impose their choice of arbitration systems on employees and even customers.

Purdue University destroyed the video of a public talk, on US government orders, because the talk's slides showed material from Snowden revelations.

This is part of the US government's policy of refusing to recognize that formerly secret information has been published. It sounds like sheer insanity, but it has real repressive consequences.

Universities must reject secret government research entirely if it comes with conditions that apply to the rest of the university.

A US appeals court ruled that a sequence of yoga poses (such as Bikram yoga) cannot be copyrighted.

Copyright law explicitly covers only creative details of expression, not anything with practical significance.