Cops are taught unscientific methods of trying to determine who is lying, and a dangerous technique for extracting confessions.

When they believe that these methods are valid, they become overconfident and more likely to believe bad conclusions. Both of them are unjust to people who feel little confidence, even if they are telling the truth and not guilty.

Ilhan Omar defeated a well-funded plutocratist challenger in the Democratic primary.

A pumped hydro energy storage system proposed for a tributary that flows into the Grand Canyon is meeting lots of opposition.

I wonder how long a pumped hydro system could continue to function in a land which global heating is making ever more arid as time goes on. Of all the possible places, why there?

The UK suffers from a particular form of capitalism — rentier capitalism — where the main income is to those who have something others need to pay rent for.

This creates growing inequality.

Indigenous people in the distant Amazon region call on European banks to stop lending to oil extraction there.