Americans vote for bans on fracking because they can't trust governments to protect the safety of drilling operations.

It is entirely logical that when corporations are too powerful to regulate, they should be shut down entirely.

However, an even more important reason to ban fracking is that we can't burn so much fossil fuel.

The president of Sierra Leone personally ordered the arbitrary imprisonment of a prominent critical journalist.

Alaska's mad experiment with internet voting is an invitation to fraud.

Republicans cite the danger of fraud when they impose laws to block poor, old and minority people from voting. Why, we must ask, aren't they up in arms against internet voting?

UN Refugee Agency Launches Global Campaign to End Statelessness.

Perhaps the deepest problem is the practice of excluding stateless people from usual activities and human rights. It's one thing to deport someone, and another to deny that person schooling, health care, driving, banking, and so on.

Abbott insists that coal is the future, directly opposing UN efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

What he means is that the destruction of civilization is the future.