Right-wing extremists could convert a movement for "objectivity" in Brazil's schools into an excuse to repress teachers that supported the Workers Party.

Looking at the moral arguments about genetically modified babies.

People seem to think there is something fundamentally wrong with the idea. I think they are repeating the silliness about "playing god" that we used to come across 60 years ago. In principle, there is nothing wrong with making genetically modified babies.

There is a problem in our present state of ignorance: the danger that something will go wrong and produce babies that are somehow damaged. That is a valid reason not to make genetically modified babies -- for now.

If we develop ways to make babies that are somehow superior, we should make that option available to all babies at no cost. It would be unfair to deny the benefits to anyone.

Most women who are killed, are killed by their relatives or lovers.

Bangladesh is building prison camps for the Rohingya, in an isolated low-lying island under military control where they would be inaccessible to journalists.

Did Bangladesh get this idea from the bully's treatment of refugees?

In a few years, a typhoon will drown the island.

"No, democracies don't have 'cultural loyalty' laws." But Israel wants one.