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Dean Baker: “If we adjust patent laws to better serve the economy we can ensure that robots and other technological breakthroughs make most of the world richer not poorer.”

The Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act and ag-gag initiatives stand on the shoulders of a century of similar efforts to marginalize animal protectionists as threats to American security.

Fighting heroin addiction and drug addiction should be dealt with in the most practical fashion possible. That's why the United States should start its own heroin prescription program as …

Right now it's easier for a black teenager to go to jail than it is for him to vote.

A good Lyme test would go a large way to ending the wars, because at some point in the debate one side is right and the other is wrong.

This is a struggle for power over what kind of future can be created for humanity; it's time to stop giving juice to Big Brother.

When there are documents that the public has a right to know about, we have a right to go take them.

Relman's account of his hospitalizations misses the haloing effect of his professional visibility and prominence.

When skilled slots do go unfilled, it's because employers seek high-value workers at discount rates.

For a stabilized atmosphere, we are going to have to defeat some very powerful people and institutions in the process of liberating ourselves - and science - from the …