Some US states are still trying to teach bogus "science" instead of evolution.

The US Supreme Court found an excuse to deny some American women access to contraception.

This decision makes no sense in its own terms, because the whole point of a corporation is that it is a separate entity from its owners. They can have religious beliefs, but the corporation cannot. These particular owners, in aiming to impose their views over employees' rights, want to have it both ways. "When the corporation pays for medical coverage, it's really us. If the corporation loses money, it's not us."

This case is part of a general campaign to eliminate access to birth control on the part of Christian fanatics that resemble the Taliban in their misogyny and intolerance.

This question has a real effect because the most reliable forms of birth control involve a big expense once in a while. Getting insurance coverage for them makes a real difference for many US women, especially now that the same right-wingers have made more of them poor.

Congress could amend the Religious Freedom Restauration Act to fix this decision, but it would be better to amend the Constitution to state that human rights in general do not apply to corporations.

However, the clean solution to this problem (and many others) is to disconnect medical care totally from employment. Making employers pay for medical care for employees has the side effect of encouraging companies to eliminate full-time US jobs in favor of foreign operations, part-time subcontractors, or robots.

Instead we should make wealthy people and businesses pay for health care for everyone, employed or not, through a progressive income tax.

Egypt's most popular satirist said he will terminate his TV show, implying that the regime will not allow him to continue it.

The FDA is looking for nanomaterials to make animals grow faster.

In principle, this is a great idea. In practice, things may go wrong.

Animals will eat these materials in large quantities, then excrete them; what will happen then? Sewage treatment and water treatment plants were not designed with them in mind, so whether they get into our water will be a matter of luck. If they do, will they increase human obesity?

In the US: call on Kroger Supermarket to stop selling unsustainable fish.