A proposed business-supremacy treaty for Asia includes restrictions on generic medicines, and would stop India from providing many generic drugs to poor people in a number of other countries.

As with other business-supremacy treaties, often referred to misleadingly as "free trade treaties" by their supporters, there is no good in this treaty. The countries involved should kill it.

It is a fundamental mistake to call these restrictions "intellectual property" because that leads people to confuse them with unrelated issues such as copyright law. Every time that term is used, it spreads confusion — so please, don't use it!

To stop global heating, it is vital to make the rich pay taxes by ending their tax-dodging.

Poor countries need 4 trillion dollars through 2030 to reduce their emissions as much as they have already pledged, and those pledges are far from sufficient to avoid disaster.

Faisal bin ali Jaber continues to sue for information about the US drone attack that killed his relatives.

Reporters Without Borders now ranks the US as number 41 in freedom of the press, because of Obama's persistent attacks on journalists' sources (i.e., whistleblowers).

This is where the US has a duty to be number 1.

Big companies such as Google and Facebook have built large installations close to sea level, and they are going to get flooded.