In Loomis Reef, part of the Great Barrier Reef, nearly all the coral has bleached and half of it is dead. The fish that used to live there are now gone.

The extractionists that rule Australia might respond, "Since the coral is doomed anyway, and the billion people who depend on it will soon starve, so why not burn all the coal?"

But it is not too late to prevent this act of mass murder, if we curb fossil fuel use with dispatch.

Using facial examination to guess people's character traits is dangerous when it is unreliable, and unjust when it is reliable.

The IMF's researchers acknowledge that neoliberal economic policy exists, and that it's lousy.

Mohammed Sheikh Mohammed's lawyers accuse the military kangaroo court of destroying evidence in its favor, then pretending to have ordered its preservation.

Each of the prisoners in Guantanamo has a right to a fair trial or to be released.

The UK's ban on nearly all psychoactive drugs will drive people to more dangerous drugs such as alcohol. It is the result of a misguided choice of goal: promoting abstinence, rather than reducing harm.