The ban on chlorofluorocarbons is starting to reverse the former growth of the ozone hole.

How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World.

Everyone: call on Google, Microsoft and others to stop supporting global heating denialists.

If the US goes to war with ISIS, how long before Americans conclude that it was a mistake?

ISIS is evil enough that fighting ISIS is not inherently wrong. The same was true for Saddam Hussein — but launching a war against his regime made things worse in Iraq, and the same thing could easily happen again.

Thwarting ISIS in a conventional war of movement is easy. Destroying ISIS would mean an urban guerrilla war, which would be horrible (as it was 8 years ago in the same part of Iraq) and would not succeed. To really defeat ISIS requires convincing Iraq's Sunnis to kick ISIS out.

Ferguson's city council is voting to limit court fine income to 15% of the city revenue, instead of 21% as now.

What directly oppresses the poor citizens of Ferguson is the rules that the system follows, such as fining people for being unable to pay fines. Cutting out a little over 1/4 of the fines is insufficient to make a qualitative difference.

Some of the other changes might matter more.