For-Profit System Driving Up Health Costs for US, While Outcomes Remain Poor.

The Onion: Proud Billionaire Helps Young Son Open First Offshore Bank Account.

Jewish Voice for Peace invited an Arab member of Israel's parliament to give talks in the US about Israel's erosion of democracy. Israel's parliament has prohibited him from going.

In Missouri, teenagers are sometimes pressured into marriage by a combination of bad laws and bad religion.

People of age 14 are adolescents, not children — let's not infantilize teenagers. If they want to have sex, that's normal; they should. But it is unreasonably young to get married. However, just prohibiting their marriage won't spare them the factors that pressure them to do so.

The direct source of the problem is the lying law that redefines "rape" arbitrarily to include voluntary sex. This law put Heather Strawn in the position where the only way to protect her boyfriend from prison was to marry him.

However, religious interference with birth control and abortion are also part of the cause. No one of any age should ever "have to" get married because of pregnancy: that's what abortion is for. With proper sex education and a good medical system, unwanted pregnancy would hardly ever occur.

The patriarchal attitude towards women is also part of the cause, but I don't need to explain that because the article does.

The liar fired the White House aide who confirmed that the liar had fired Tillerson on the spur of the moment, not based on an advance plan.