After 29 years, the eradication of the guinea worm is almost complete.

WHO says it expects to finish the job this year.

Jimmy Carter was the last president of the US that deserved respect.

Courtney Canfield was fired from a government job in Kansas for not going to church.

Reporters find excuses to downplay the size of Sanders' support as expressed by rallies for him.

San Jose, California, proposes to put license plate readers on garbage trucks so as to scan all the cars in the city regularly.

This is far too much surveillance for a free society. Indeed, license plate readers as they exist today should not be allowed at all. License plate readers should be designed so that they do not even record having seen a plate that is lawful and not sought by court order.

Universities including Harvard and Yale pay fund managers hundreds of millions of dollars a year — and do this in a way that relieves the fund managers of most of their income tax.

I'm not sure I agree with the article's spend-8-percent proposal. It would cause big problems when the stock market goes down. Rather, I'd suggest limiting the percentage that can be paid in management fees.