A landlord in the UK will have to pay around 2 million dollars in fines to avoid going to jail for renting people tiny apartments with conditions that endanger health.

The landlords that gouge the poor for intolerable living conditions deserve punishment, but giving everyone adequate housing requires more than just fining and jailing exploiters. Britain needs to make more housing available, and rapidly. Otherwise these tenants will be living in even worse conditions, on the street.

As mainstream media dwell only on the good things that Bush I did, Glenn Greenwald and Mehdi Hasan present the bad things also.

Scientists caught 100 sea turtles and studied what was in their stomachs. Every one of them had swallowed many pieces of plastic, as well as objects such as cigarettes.

After decades of distraction campaigns about hypothetical fraud committed by individual voters, Republicans show little interest in the real case of organized election fraud committed by Republicans.

Perhaps this is because they have grown so comfortable with voter-suppression and gerrymandering. Those measures are not, strictly speaking, fraud, but they are the moral equivalent of fraud.

Global heating effects make millions of people sick.