Brazil's president is dealing with a budget deficit, and plans to handle half of it with a tax on financial transactions.

At least she is getting things half right, unlike the right-wing governments that take it all out on the poor.

The US Navy has been ordered to limit loud sonar to avoid deafening whales.

Wikipedia has a started a damaging "partnership" with parasitic publisher Elsevier.

For editors to see Elsevier articles is not particularly harmful, but making links to them would work against Wikipedia's goal, as well as strengthen the power of a company that strangles science.

I think Wikipedia should prohibit links to sites with strict paywalls, and automatically delete them and block insertion of new ones.

The US has hundreds of foreign military bases, which harm Americans by facilitating wars as well as costing lots of money.

A Denver prosecutor has been ordered to explain to a judge why he didn't prosecute a thug who gratuitously attacked and maimed a man in the court.