China will require journalists to take an ideology exam.

One of the missions of the Environmental Defenders Office in Australia is to make governments implement legal requirements to protect endangered species.

Officials, perhaps in bed with mining or logging interests, seem to wish to let these species be wiped out.

Cows in the US are fed litter from chicken cages, and that includes beef.

This creates a danger of spreading mad cow disease.

Israeli troops shot a Palestinian in the back, but said he was shooting at them.

Republicans' method for reducing the unemployment rate is to cut unemployment benefits. In North Carolina, this made 77,000 people give up looking for work, so they are not longer counted in the "unemployment rate".

It is a mistake to judge the success or failure of government policies by the official unemployment rate. The real measure of unemployment is number of people who are of working age but not working or in school, and not independently wealthy.