China is building artificial concrete islands in the South China Sea as military bases and excuses to claim the undersea oil.

The US had Yemen disappeared Sharif Mobley. Now the US-supported Saudi bombing campaign is attacking the airbase where he is imprisoned.

Brazil and Indonesia give enormous subsidies to exports that require deforestation, dwarfing the subsidies they receive to avoid deforestation.

In Australia, warrant canaries are forbidden.

I hope that thousands of Australians will defy this law by stating that they have never received one of these journalist information warrants.

A good welfare system encourages people to start more businesses.

A society which people need to be "entrepreneurial" is a harsh one. Being an entrepreneur means taking a gamble, and you shouldn't gamble what you can't afford to lose. Society should not make people gamble what they can't afford to lose.