Is a patient harmed if medical research uncovers unpleasant facts about them?

Why would we think that hiring more bureaucrats will lead to better regulation?

Reparations for the slave trade aren't as difficult as we think.

Scientists chasing government funding leads to bogus science.

For Earth Day, Iceland makes the point that the Earth is far more powerful than we are.

Does unemployment insurance help or hinder job-seeking?

As antibiotics fail and resistant infections spread, FDA red tape prevents us from using another antibacterial weapon - phages.

The Red Chinese understand capitalism better than the Obama administration.

Knee-jerk reaction to the West Virginia mine disaster: more red tape!

The government spends money to make us fatter, and then also spends money to make us thinner.