Poor Americans can't afford doxycycline, which used to be so cheap that it was easy for them to get.

What has changed? I think it is a reduction in the number of suppliers. If so, this is yet another result of allowing businesses to merge when it ought to be banned.

The market is a useful mechanism, but it is subject to instabilities. One of them is the tendency for all the producers of a certain good to merge. Without energetic government regulation, the market will go all wrong.

Research shows that farmed salmon, which are genetically inferior to wild salmon, are equally fertile, which means escaping fish have the power to drag down the wild salmon gene pool.

The UK government is eager to use "environmental offsetting" as an excuse to permit developers to destroy wild areas.

Theoretically the "offsets" will replace what is destroyed, but the government seems to regard this more as an excuse than as a serious goal.

The UK has arrested people who went to Syria possibly to help rebels.

If they supported a group that fights to impose Islamist tyranny, that was evil, but the UK law equally punishes fighting for a good cause.

A Palestinian-Jordanian who is a judge in Jordan was shot by Israeli soldiers who say he tried to take a soldier's gun.

This story strikes me as totally fishy. Only a thug could say it with a straight face.