The New York Times continues boosting wars, despite claiming it has learned its lesson from the disastrous results of boosting Dubya's conquest of Iraq.

Americans are using less gasoline, so the US government wants to fund highways from sources other than the gasoline tax.

It is good that we are driving less, and good that cars are more efficient. We should raise the gasoline tax rate to give Americans even more incentive to drive less and use more efficient cars. And we can mostly stop building new highways (though the old ones need proper maintenance).

Luxembourg is Europe's biggest tax-dodger enabler, and Juncker, the new head of the European Commission, worked hard to make it so.

As president, he will have the power to sabotage the commission's investigation into what he set up.

A future contraceptive implant could last for 16 years.

I don't see a tremendous benefit in being able to turn it on and off without removing it — how often would you want to do that? I expect most women will want to use contraception until they decide to have children, have some, then use contraception for the rest of their fertility (or get sterilized). The easy way to space their children would be with shorter-term contraception, perhaps one-year implants. This way, the long-term implant would only have to be removed once, which it requires anyway.

What worries me is that they might design it to require nonfree software to communicate with it.

From the Marshall Islands: Why the next climate treaty is vital for my country to survive.