The Ebola epidemic shows the need for universal basic health care to extend even to the poorest places.

Dentists in the US are increasingly likely to recommend expensive unnecessary dental work.

This appears to be due to the economic pressure placed on dentists by changes in dentistry, including large companies with hundreds of offices.

US citizens: call on the USDA to require labeling of food containing ammonia-treated meat, "pink slime".

In a privatized immigration prison in Texas, the staff take sexual advantage of the prisoners.

In ordinary language, a prisoner is anyone kept in prison. When the authorities try to impose distinctions, with words such as "detainee", I think that is a plan to avoid the odium of the word "prisoner" for cases such as these. Why help them? I call these people "prisoner".

Australian senators voted for a monstrous censorship law without reading it.

If you see government agents kill people, either accidentally or intentionally, it will be illegal for you to tell anyone.