US citizens: call on Obama to have the EPA pressure chemical plants to convert to safer processes that won't explode.

About 500 Americans die per year due to the unpleasantness of TSA airport security.

Citizens of Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Ohio, Wisconsin, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Minnesota and Wisconsin: remind your progressive senators that attacking Syria is not progressive.

Many products such as facial cleansers contain plastic microbeads. After use, they end up in waterways and harm various forms of life.

I don't think they degrade in any short time.

Snowden files show that the NSA is spying on the Brazilian state oil company, Petrobras.

This is scandalous because it is clearly meant for commercial advantage, not for defending the US against attack.