Obama and Biden proudly announce they tried to choose a nonprogressive Supreme Court nominee to satisfy Republicans.

They chose someone not worth going to bat for.

Obama is no progressive, and this was always obvious. That's why I never voted for him.

A flight over a large part of the Great Barrier Reef found that 60% of the coral was bleached.

Coral that bleaches is likely to die, unless it gets an unstressed and cool period to recover.

Protesters at an Indian university were arrested and have been kept incommunicado.

I am looking for people to help a progressive political candidate by rebuilding his web site so you can read it without running nonfree JavaScript code.

Can the UN be held accountable for the failure to protect civilians?

It seems to me that the root of the failure in South Sudan is that only a much larger mission could have protected more than a small fraction of the civilians there. Basically, peacekeeping missions depend on the prestige of the name, "United Nations Peacekeeping Mission", which depends over the long term on the willingness of the Great Powers to use their might against those who disrespect those missions. The Great Powers had better do their job.