Malala Yusafzai reminds Obama that he needs to negotiate with the Taliban.

20% of the world's cities now have plans for monumental and expensive adaptations to protect themselves from the effects of global heating.

This won't protect our food supply from global heating. We ought to be cutting down CO2 emissions so that we never reach that disastrous point.

Russia bans books by labeling them "extremist", and even imprisons people for having copies.

The UK also imprisons people for having copies of books, but in the UK there is no list of which books are banned, so one can't tell.

A nonviolent Moscow protester was convicted of "calling for mass riots" and sentenced to indefinite imprisonment in a mental hospital.

Bills Offer Clear Choice: End Bulk Collection of Americans Data or Endorse It.