US citizens: Support government measures to limit "for-profit colleges" from driving students into debt.

Obama is proposing a larger intervention in Syria to win Republican support.

I would support intervention to topple Assad if his likely replacement were not Islamists.

Global heating is predicted to change rainfall in Brazil and damage agriculture.

In 2009, Sri Lanka's forces killed perhaps 70,000 Tamil civilians; then they massacred captured rebels. The government is stepping up the repression of Tamils and dissidents.

The article mentions the assassination of Lasantha Wickrematunge, whose posthumous last editorial accused the state of killing him.

Jeff Cohen: My Surprisingly Inspiring Trip to the West Bank.