Australia's government is continuing to draw up a bill to require back doors in encryption applications.

Common agricultural pesticides harm various endangered species. Republican response: a bill to ignore that problem when approving pesticides.

Confederate generals, including Robert E. Lee, were far from noble when they systematically killed black soldiers that their troops captured.

Israeli soldiers shot and gassed hundreds of Palestinian protesters across the Gaza border fence again.

Goldman Sachs dared to say what many have suspected: it is more profitable to sell people a treatment every day than sell them a cure just once.

As long as we let businesses influence medical research, they won't look much for cures. We should take the choice away from them. We should tax these businesses and fund medical research with state funds.

We should also fund tests of proposed medicines' safety and effectiveness with state funds, so that the tests will not be corrupted.

This will take away the supposed reason to allow businesses to have patents on medicines.