A designer drug could give the pleasure of alcohol without some of the damage.

This new drug might be less addictive than alcohol, but that's not automatic. Addiction results from the body's physiological adaptation to the effects of the drug. Whichever receptors respond to the new drug as they do to alcohol, they would tend to adapt and produce addiction. Meanwhile, whichever body systems are not affected by the new drug would not develop addiction; that might reduce the total addictive effect, but how much that occurs would have to be seen.

Al Qa'ida is recruiting suicide bombers in Turkey, and parents are afraid their sons will be recruited and die.

People say the government turns a blind eye to it.

One of the "new atheists" wrote that moderate religion contributes to the crimes of extreme religion by protecting it from criticism. This seems to be a good example of it. Any form of Islam makes a person vulnerable to infection by the jihadi mind-virus.

We must promote climate-friendly farming before it's too late.

The Democrats' list of tax loopholes to be closed inexplicably omits the tax subsidies for fossil fuel.

Palestinians accuse Israel of denying Palestinian prisoners proper medical treatment for diseases such as cancer.