The US would do well to stop obsessing with the September 2001 terrorist attacks. Pledging to dwell on them perpetuates the fear-driven errors and injustices of those years.

Where I was on September 11, 2001 is not important. What I did that day would have been important, if it had succeeded. I started writing an article about the next attack, which I foresaw would be directed at Americans' freedom by American officials in the name of "security".

Canada has suffered greatly from NAFTA, and companies are suing because they have been blocked from fracking or mining to protect water supplies and endangered species.

NAFTA has harmed Mexico even more, and the US as well.

The reason a treaty between three countries has harmed all three is that it's a business-supremacy treaty. Its effects are to harm the environment and the non-rich in all countries that sign.

Why We Should Have Fewer Children: to Save the Planet.

Many churches block women from access to contraception and abortion, effectively forcing them to have too many children.

There are plenty of other reasons why it is advisable not to have children under current circumstances.

Sanctions failed to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons, but a world-wide rejection of nuclear weapons might be worth trying.

Chelsea Manning has started a hunger strike to demand to be treated as female, and an end to harassment measures.