Attacking the Pakistani Taliban provides an opportunity to attack the disease they protect: polio.

Pennsylvania told state health officials not to return phone calls from people who had health problems due to fracking.

Australia gives some asylum seekers a cursory screening and sends them back.

It does not matter a priori whether this is done on land or on a ship, but doing so on ship facilitates "accidental" errors which, at a systematic level, are not accidents.

While the government refuses to admit this, it effectively admits it by trying to pretend that Sri Lanka does not torture dissidents.

Australia's plans show that its goal is to keep refugees out no matter what the situation.

One of the Peruvian soldiers convicted of killing journalist Hugo Bustios says that Peru's current interior minister Urresti ordered the killing.

The One-Sided Culture War against Children. Whether US parents are too lax, or too controlling, the "solution" is always "impose standardized tests to fire teachers."

I find that US parents tend to be too lax on some issues (they can't say "Don't be used by Facebook!" or "Don't sign an EULA that says you are not allowed to give that to someone else!"), and twistedly strict on others (kids never get to be home alone; parents think that would kill them). But the "solution" of "impose standardized tests to fire teachers" is never going to help.