Younger MDs have won a victory for single-payer medical coverage by convincing the AMA to consider the idea.

The right-wing candidate for president of Brazil showed himself to be an enemy of democracy by choosing as running mate a general that spoke in favor of a military coup.

There is a real danger that this candidate will win.

Facebook bought a company apparently for the sake of learning its tricks to rope in high-school students as useds.

A Russian exporter of asbestos thanked the poisoner for keeping asbestos legal in the US.

We can ban asbestos some day, if we fight asbestos we can.

The UN is considering a measure to help poor countries make generic medicines to treat tuberculosis. The US is pressuring various countries so as to defeat the measure.

The fact that a former Obama advisor is helping that effort demonstrates what we could see at the time: Obama was more a supporter of plutocracy than an opponent of it.