UC Berkeley has reinstated the class on the occupation of Palestine after determining that it did not impose a specific point of view.

A mother explains why she has stopped buying toys for her children, since they cause several kinds of harm.

Too bad the author doesn't apply the same ability to analyze and judge to the question of how she plays music. She would see that the modern "replacements" for CDs have problems comparable to those of Toys R Us.

Either Russia or Syria bombed UN food aid trucks, in a gross war crime.

Putin will surely try to equate this to the accidental US bombing of Syrian soldiers in a town besieged by PISSI. That's a typical Putinesque background lie.

Facebook threatens to subsume newspapers and magazines, gaining unprecedented power.

When a company has dangerous power, it is irrelevant whether it got that "fairly" in a "in a competitive open market". We should not let that irrelevance distract us from what matters: protecting ourselves from their power.

Haiti has cut down its forests; the Dominican Republic has preserved them. This makes a big difference.

However, don't think that Haitians chose the wrong path because of some absurd fault of theirs. The heavy burden of reparations, imposed by France in exchange for recognizing Haiti's independence, probably helped direct Haiti into a trajectory of permanent poverty, which the US has helped perpetuate ever since.