The UK could boost the economy, and not only for the wealthy, by setting a strong target for energy efficiency.

The government is not interested, perhaps because it aims to make workers desperate and penurious, not make jobs.

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".