With cuts in food stamps, many families are in trouble if children are dismissed from school before lunch.

Intense business lobbying — for false solutions or just against real ones — helped make the Warsaw climate negotiations a failure.

It's too bad the report uses the nebulous term "intellectual property". I suppose the companies reported on used that term, because the confusion it spreads serves their purposes; those who oppose them would do well to pull that veil aside.

Small pieces of plastic in the ocean are harming worms that are food for many other species.

Pieces 5mm in size shouldn't be called "microplastics". Perhaps some pieces are small enough to deserve that name.

Once the worms have a low level of toxins, the animals that eat the worms will accumulate higher levels, and the animals that eat those will get even higher levels. The same thing happens with mercury, which is why tuna have so much mercury that they are dangerous for humans to eat.

ALEC is considering proposals to attack the rights of workers, patients, customers and students, vis-a-vis employers and businesses.

The US government has a persistent habit of treating journalists as terrorists, and refused to promise not to prosecute journalist for publishing interviews with terrorists.