Nations and legislations built on farcical constitutions.

I'm surprised at the farcical streak in your nature, Alec.

As events like the Tour de France turn farcical, bioethics professor Julian Savulescu has offered a radical solution.

And it is indeed farcical for China s government to try to suppress the yearning for freedom in the same brutal ways that Soviet era communists once did.

After 1,000 years, Russia will have come full circle, returning to Kievan Rus after wandering on the roads of the Mongol hordes, empire, communism, and farcical Putinism.

But, in a regime like Vladimir Putin s, where the government decides who may be a candidate, the webcams would be farcical were they not also so intimidating.

Just as the United States had made no prior commitment with respect to the result of last November apos s farcical plebiscite, in the eight months since then it has shown indifference and a total lack of will to decolonize.

The face of nuclear terror has changed since the Cold War, but disaster medicine expert Irwin Redlener reminds us the threat is still real. He looks at some of history's farcical countermeasures and offers practical advice on how to survive an attack.