Fossil-fuel company denialists have led most Americans to think that lots of climate scientists doubt that humans are causing global heating.

The scientists who reported that Roundup causes cancer in mice stand by their results.

The UK continues forcing ISPs to keep data about their users' contacts in defiance of the European Court of Justice.

The right-wing approach to parents in poor, bad neighborhoods is to offer them lectures in doing the impossible, or punish them.

Some of them could be validly criticized for having children without being in a position to raise them properly. But not all: some of them may have had good jobs back then, and reasonably expected they could afford to raise children. Anyway, society failed to teach them this precept; society therefore shares the responsibility for the current problem.

Whoever's at fault, it's not the children. Society should provide the real help that their parents need.

Hundreds of FARC soldiers have deserted; the Colombian government has programs to encourage this.

The FARC started as a rebellion against tyranny after a leftist presidential candidate was assassinated, but it subsequently degenerated into a sort of crime syndicate. Its disappearance is to be wished for, all things being equal; but what will Colombia do to eliminate Colombia biggest and most harmful terrorist group — the paramilitares?

The paramilitares have been closely linked to the government.