Campaigning against an autodestructive response to the Boston Bombings.

A woman in El Salvador has asked the Supreme Court to let her have an abortion, because otherwise she is likely to die from her pregnancy.

The sacred fetus that the Catholic Church would kill her to save cannot survive anyway, because most of its brain is missing. But even if it were healthy, she should not be forced to bear it.

A Wikileaks cable shows how the US planned to meddle in Venezuelan politics to try to defeat Chavez.

I don't agree with all the opinions in the article; for instance, I think he's bending over backwards to defend North Korea, which is as nasty a tyranny as you can find on Earth.

The "American Federation for Children" spent millions to support state legislature candidates that want to privatize public schools.

This is the kind of predator that US parents really should be worried about, since they can hurt a lot more children than any other kind of predator.

The Irish government is shielding the companies that sold horsemeat as beef.

If the Irish government intended, in February, to put meat businesses gently on notice so they would cease this practice, that's not wrong in principle. It was a way to put an end to the practice. However, blocking an investigation is going too far.

I see nothing wrong in principle with putting horsemeat in a burger, as long as it is processed safely and announced on the label. The same is true with the other kinds of filler that are normally included in cheap burger patties, whose purchasers typically assume they are buying pure beef.