Global heating denialist Willie Soon is in trouble for hiding the funds he received from fossil fuel interests.

Los Angeles will increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour but only in 2020. By that time, $15 will be too small and another increase will be past due.

The European Union should boost employment directly.

Why doesn't it? The banks have too much power.

A tribe in New Guinea in which people ate the brains of their deceased relatives, and thus transmitted prion disease down to new generations, has evolved resistance to prion disease.

Lots of them died in the process; this is not a very desirable way to deal with diseases.

Western volunteers are helping Syrian Kurds fight PISSI.

We should encourage such volunteers. They will absorb the firmness and esprit de corps of the peshmerga, which training Iraqi troops hasn't a ghost of a chance of doing. Furthermore that boosts an army not based on ethnic or sectarian bigotry, one that any Iraqi who wants peace and justice would welcome in.