Unless/until old growth trees increase again, the only way to save the mountain caribou of western Canada is to kill some wolves in those regions.

*The Maidan martyrs: a decade on from Kyiv’s bloody revolution.*

San Francisco has built a public toilet for only 200,000 dollars.

The toilet's existence is an improvement, but the city can't afford to do the whole job if it is that expensive.

If the city required every restaurant, while it is open for business, to allow any orderly person to use its toilet, it would have thousands of toilets available for the public, and the total burden of taking care of them could be far less.

A description of violence by Israeli colonists (often helped by soldiers) against Palestinians in the West Bank part of Palestine.

New Hampshire Republican crazies are working on repealing the existing vaccine requirements for polio and measles. The danger this poses to other people will not be limited to the children of right-wing fools.

There should be no religious exceptions to the duty to protect the whole population from dangerous diseases by getting yourself and your children vaccinated. The only exception should be for medical reasons, in case a person for special medical conditions cannot be vaccinated.