The giant new Adani coal mine in Australia was funded by the World Bank through a program that is supposed to fund "sustainable development".

US citizens: phone your congresscritter (on Jan 4 if possible) to oppose cuts in Medicare and Medicaid.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

Tillerson is a director of Bahamas-registered Exxon subsidiary that is involved with Russia.

Companies in the Bahamas usually exist to hide income or dodge taxes. Maybe that is what this one is for. Exxon claims that it doesn't dodge taxes in one particular way. The denial is phrased in a legalistic way that makes me suspect it's a word game. Maybe this subsidiary dodges taxes in some other way.

Identifying the 15 tax havens, measured by the amount of harm they do.

If people get bothered by the fictional all-seeing eye of the "Elf on the Shelf", maybe they will start being concerned about real systems that do pervasive surveillance.

It is possible to identify at age 3 a fraction of people who will place a big burden on society, from a few measurements of "brain health".

How many such people there are is partly under our control. It is clear that lead poisoning can put people into that fraction, so the amount of lead that gets into people will make that fraction bigger or smaller.