UK private contractors whose callousness killed a man being deported will face charges.

Arbitrary restrictions on which days each car may be used tend to increase air pollution in the long term.

The UK government is quietly planning to eliminate incentives for businesses to use less fossil fuels.

I am convinced that the UK government has made a long-term secret commitment to boost the fossil fuel companies' business as much as possible — the exact opposite of what Britain and the world need.

The US is using economic threats to push El Salvador into massive privatization.

A teenager whose baby died at birth faces life in prison for having used cocaine while pregnant.

Even if it were probable that the cocaine had caused the baby's death, that would not make this prosecution just or sensible.

This is not the way to get pregnant teenagers to stop taking cocaine. Extreme punishment against a minute fraction of the people who do a certain thing is never an effective way to teach people in general not to do it. They rationally think that such a minute probability is not worth thinking about.

The rational way to reduce the number of pregnant teenagers that use cocaine is to provide all teenage females with IUDs. The cruel right-wing "Christians" that enacted this law don't want to do that, because they don't care about babies that die or have birth defects. What they want is an excuse to be cruel to a scapegoat.