Will Australia Continue to Sacrifice Its International Reputation (not to mention its security) on the Altar of Coal?

Unusual bacteria in Pablo Neruda's corpse suggest he was murdered in hospital, presumably by agents of Pinochet's regime.

Another opposition leader was murdered later in the same hospital.

We now have proof that Pinochet's coup was carried out with US complicity.

Honolulu's ban on sleeping in the center of the city chased homeless people into other neighborhoods, so now it bans them there too.

The officials say this is ok because non-homeless people, even tourists, are also fined for sleeping on beaches and sidewalks. But that is no excuse for persecuting the homeless. If businesses find homeless people unsightly, they should pay for a place for them to live.

Shame on you, Honolulu.

Tiny frogs that develop without a tadpole stage have been found in Brazil. Some of these species are limited to a single mountain.

Skipping the tadpole stage is amazing in evolutionary terms. They must have evolved from ancestors that did have tadpoles. This makes them especially interesting for research. I hope we don't render them extinct first.

It was Leslie Cauley who first exposed the NSA's mass collection of Americans' phone call records. Snowden repeated the disclosure, and then the world took notice.