A call to sanity for US parents: stop hovering over your children.

A new Republican senator from Koch Industries will give the Republican response to Obama's State of the Union address.

The progressive views that most Americans support may be mentioned somewhat in Obama's address, now that no one expects him to be able to deliver on them much. But it is too little and way too late, from a man who seems not to have been committed to any principles.

India claims success in protecting tigers, saying the population has increased 30% since 2011.

In the past, India's reported tiger population included many that were dead; one tiger reserve was found to have no tigers at all. This time they seem to counted more carefully.

The attempt to remove the condemnation from the word "slut" seems to have failed.

I have never understood what is supposed to be wrong about being a "slut". I can't see why a woman shouldn't have sex however she likes, even if she is my lover.

I love Favianna's attitude, but I avoid referring to sex using the word "fuck". It has too much harshness associated with it.

Boat people sent by Australia to Manus Island are on hunger strike; their prison guards are confiscating phones so they cannot document the violence.