The Alternative Medicine Racket
A decades-long campaign of federal funding for quackery
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Interview with director of Killing Them Safely, the first feature-length film to tackle the lethality of the 'revolutionary' law enforcement tool.
Reckless policy proposed as an anti-prostitution measure.
France's erosion of civil liberties while under a state of emergency continues.
A new Showtime series sounds pretty alarmist about everything that makes the Internet great.
Thanks to Edward Snowden, a once-secret and always useless government surveillance programs draws to an end.
Three dead, 12 injured in biggest abortion-clinic attack in years.
The endgame in the quest for a universal climate treaty
Paris Climate Change Conference
Heat waves 10 times more probable due to man-made global warming
Nobel-winning economist, one of the most influential thinkers of his generation, dies aged 95.
Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin company succeeds with its New Shepard Reusable Rocket
Inconveniently for the U.S. intelligence community, the Paris attacks had nothing to do with encrypted communications.
Of course government officials want to ban privacy-oriented technologies. They were created to thwart the grasping creatures.
Makes a wonderful Christmas gift.
Expect new calls for gun control from mayors, Hillary Clinton.
The evidence concerning marijuana's effect on fetuses is mixed and incomplete.
"Defiance of a congressional subpoena is rare, and it's serious," says Sen. Rob Portman.
Activists decry failure to adhere to technology-killing precautionary principle
How influential sexual assault expert David Lisak used a misleadingly edited video to sell his serial predator theory of campus rape.
The evidence does not support the claim that cannabis poses an unacceptable risk to fetuses.
Attempting to protect fair use from copyright claim abuse
It only took 20 years to obtain bureaucratic permission
Investigators find phone data wasn't even protected at all.
Demonized as catering to racists and stalkers, the social media service actually provides comfort and the good kind of safe spaces.
A "relatively common" genetic mutation may trigger poor impulse control, especially when drinking.
Is it time to crowdsource law enforcement?
A school computer science program developer explains the pros and cons.
A field test supposedly identified the white powder in the trunk as cocaine.
CIA Director John Brennan: "A wakeup call particularly in areas of Europe."
Journalists and prisoners stage a First Amendment challenge to state secrecy regarding executions.
What happens when warnings about processed meat's cancer risk collides with California's absurd Prop 65 (over)warning law?
Does the stock market know something that environmental activists don't?
The Kentucky senator says his GOP rival fails to understand, "You can use the Fourth Amendment and still get terrorists."
This is class-based paternalism in action.
Naturally, the established doctors object.
Allowing parents to stay in cities can help families and alleviate traffic congestion.
Paris Climate Change Conference
Plenty of economic pain for a likely reduction in global temperature rise of about -0.17°C in 2100
Incremental, bottom-up, trial-and-error innovation yields moral progress, superior technologies, and greater wealth
Moving pot to Schedule II is weak tea compared to Bernie Sanders' support for repealing federal prohibition.
Snowden's lawyer, Jesselyn Radack, explains why whistleblowers are the targets of government prosecution.
Global warming will cool sexual passion, says new study
From Harvard to Duke to Rutgers to University of Phoenix, here's a ranking of top universities favored by the military-industrial complex.
It will feel even better the next time around with the full force of a 58 percent majority moving on from one of the great failures of the past 100 years.