Rugrat rarities - What explains America’s mysterious baby bust?​​​​​​​

OPIOID-USE disorder, the result of the misuse of drugs including heroin and prescription painkillers, is a well-studied medical condition. In the prison system, however, it isn’t always treated like one. Whereas jails in some parts of Britain offer effective treatment for opioid addicts, others run far more spartan regimes. This variation is endangering prisoners, who are frequently shuttled between the two starkly different systems.​​​​​​​

More money, more problems - The British economy is less competitive than it was.

That has big consequences.

Plastic surgery - LABIANON​​​​​​​
Where designer vaginas are all the rage - “In the gulf the ladies want a big butt and a big vagina. Not the Lebanese. They want smaller vaginas. They are more like the Europeans: they want the labia inside.” So says Dr Hussein Hashim, a plastic surgeon in Beirut, as he sits behind a desk scattered with buttock implants.

The chancellor Philip Hammond says that austerity is over. It is not quite so simple.​​​​​​​

Gender dysphoria - A paper suggests that the increase in the number of trans teenage girls is a social rather than a biological phenomenon.​​​​​​​

How much global warming is too much? The use of negative emissions to balance carbon dioxide.​​​​​​​

PRESIDENT Donald Trump reckons foreigners will pay the cost of his tariffs. Others disagree, claiming that tariffs will bite into budgets at home.
It is true that duties are payable by importers. But the question of who bears their burden is a little more complicated than anyone would like.