A US private prison company pretends that it doesn't put immigrants in solitary confinement, but evidence says that it does.

The fact that these prisons are private makes them unaccountable.

Paul Ehrlich: "Collapse of civilisation is a near certainty within decades."

Proposals to allow assisted suicide only for people that are likely to be dead in 6 months are not adequate for dementia.

Many people suffer from dementia for years, effectively zombies, before some other illness kills the corpse. By the time, six months before the latter, they would be allowed to get help with suicide, they would no longer be competent to invoke that right.

The "great Pacific garbage patch" is four times as big as people thought.

The EU plans to make Internet sellers pay a sales tax to the country where the client is.