The US federal death penalty was largely a recent political creation, to enable Clinton to look tough. The result, recently, was to impose the death penalty on Massachusetts.

Executive stock options encourage executives to take foolish gambles with the company, since they gain if the gamble succeeds, but don't lose if the gamble fails.

It would be wise for Canada to abolish its tax exemption for executive stock options, but why not prohibit them entirely?

Children who are bullied are more likely to be obese in middle age.

Fossil politicians distort science about global heating, and compare the denialists with Galileo.

The comparison is interesting, because Galileo represented science, and the powers of the time were trying to suppress it. Today, nearly all climate scientists are Galileos and the powers, the fossil fuel companies and their pet politicians, are trying to suppress it.

We must end deforestation before it pushes global heating to the point that it kills the remaining forests.

Gradual heating, at a time before humans filled the world's surface, would have caused forests to move. But no forest can move into a place occupied by agribusiness. Those forest species will instead go extinct.