If fascism is the danger, a tactic that plainly failed in pre-war Europe is not the answer.

The U.S. president's claim that the Paris climate agreement was unfair to America wilts under scrutiny.

Billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk is convinced that enhancing human intelligence and memory is our species' only alternative to elimination by our own super-intelligent inventions.

U.S. President Trump's indifference to the risks of climate change will have epic global consequences.

Fake news poses a threat to democratic institutions.

As Amnesty Interational has pointed out, criminalizing the sex industry does far more harm than good.

Minors with a demonstrable capacity for rational decision-making should have the right to request euthanasia.

Using bans to force immigrants to assimilate isn't the best way to integrate them into mainstream society.

An independent fact-finding investigation should be made to determine the scale of the threat the Zika virus would pose to visitors attending the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

With driverless cars already on California roads, it is not too soon to ask whether we can program a machine to act ethically.