Part of the army of Burundi held a coup to stop the president from ending constitutional government.

I expect that neither side is acting in accord with the constitution, but there is no way to follow the constitution.

Now the two sides are in heavy combat.

For Qatar's Foreign Workers, Global Scrutiny Is Working — to a Point.

This example of a country without labor laws shows why we need them.

A Tory-chosen economist proposes to pay pharma companies a bonus for developing new antibiotics.

It is worth spending our money on developing new antibiotics, provided we make sure they won't be ruined soon by feeding them to animals as a default practice. However, the method proposed is simultaneously a system for subsidizing big businesses wastefully.

Big pharma companies don't do much lifesaving research anyway; that's usually funded by governments. So let's fund the whole process, and make the new life-saving antibiotics available with no patents to save lives of poor people too.

The US Senate turned around and allowed "fast track" to pass.

Apparently some senators wanted to claim they tried to defeat the TPP while actually surrendering to it.

Facebook threatens to take control of how suckers read news and other publications.