The population of New Orleans decreased after Hurricane Katrina, but the supply of affordable housing decreased even more. Many poor people now have to pay half their income for rent.

Most of the public schools have been converted into "charter schools", and the public mostly disapproves of the change.

It is possible for an organic farm to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but in practice most of them don't do that.

A carbon tax would give a boost to the ones that do.

Children growing up in poverty have less brain development in areas required for academic and professional success. After this, it won't be their fault if they are unqualified for good jobs. It will be the country's fault, for handicapping them in childhood through inadequate welfare support.

Canada's Anti-Terror Legislation Faces Legal Challenge by Free Speech Advocates.

In addition to banning journalism, it gives the government effectively unlimited power for secret surveillance.

When you put this together with the government's attacks on science and the climate, it seems that the Canadian government has declared war on Canada.

Human Rights Watch : Israeli forces are choking, beating, and abusing Palestinian children as young as 11, arresting and coercing them into confessions without granting them access to lawyers or even informing their parents of their whereabouts.