Multinational hospital chain owner Tenet Healthcare plans to fire the striking nurses in one US hospital. They are on strike demanding safe levels of staffing. Tenet's aim is to be able to maintain insufficient levels in the US and perhaps in other countries.

I think we should put an end to for-profit hospitals, I know that the managemment of nonprofit hospitals often engages in some of the same harmful actions, but I suspect that the for-profit competition encourages this.

A bill to decriminalize drug possession has been introduced in Congress.

*On Ghana's Lake Volta, child slavery is in plain sight.*

Bill Cosby's rape conviction was thrown out because it was based on using his own testimony (for a civil suit), which he gave in return for a promise not to prosecute him.

I have no reason to doubt the trial's conclusion that Cosby was guilty of rape. Punishing rapists is important.

But it's even more important not to let governments cheat and trick people by making a promise not to prosecute and then breaking it. The right to refuse self-incrimination is an endangered fundamental liberty, and we must protect it — even though sometimes it protects real criminals who committed real crimes that call for real punishment.

A genetic disease has been cured in several patients by injecting a CRISPR-Cas9 gene editor into their bloodstream.