Hilary Clinton's use of a private email server, perhaps to hide important State Department emails, continues a tradition followed for decades.

We don't know whether she hid anything important, but Bush regime officials certainly did so.

Barcelona has fined banks for leaving some houses empty.

If applied on a large enough scale, this could do a lot of good. But the UK needs a much broader policy, heavily taxing anyone that owns a dwelling that isn't anyone's primary residence.

The University of California has sold 200 million dollars of fossil fuel stock, but not on principle — it judges them not to be a very good investment.

If a drop in demand just happens to reduce the use of some fossil fuels, that may help us avert disaster, but we'd be fools to count on that to do the whole job.

A world-wide plan to cap fossil fuel extraction could be best for oil consumers as well as fossil fuel companies.

The UK government falsified a study of conditions in Eritrea to create an excuse to send back Eritrean refugees.

The people who did the field work have resigned, condemning the way their work was distorted in the report.