The US immigration prison where sick children are systematically denied medicine. Children there generally get sick, or sicker.

A strange proposal: England and Wales could leave the European Union while Scotland and Northern Ireland remain part of it.

One US court ruled that thugs can't arbitrarily require everyone in a home unlock per phone biometrically merely because perse was present there at the time of a raid.

This is a small and tentative step; we need to move much further than that to make the protections of the fourth amendment effective again. And we need to put an end to assembling many digital dossiers about each person.

In Arizona on the border with Mexico, what is the right way to leave food and water so border-crossers won't die in the desert?

It might indeed be better to protect wildlife by filling large drums of water, rather than leaving small bottles. The same sort of method could be used for food.

However, if this system were practiced adequately there to do the job, I suppose activists would not feel they had work to do there.

A number of companies associated with making plastic have a plan to put a fair pile of money into reducing the unrecycled plastic — but not by making less plastic.