The series of heavy rains (and floods) experienced by the UK in the past month is more likely due to global heating.

It would not have been impossible before, but CO2 and methane emissions are making it more probable in the future.

US citizens: call on the EPA to require and help chemical plants to switch to safer chemicals and processes.

Israel is proposing to raise the threshold for a party to enter parliament, in the aim of excluding the Arab parties. Juggling the threshold is the parliamentary system's equivalent of US voter suppression laws.

Meanwhile, in a complex of ironies, the extremist Lieberman wants to transfer some Arab villages from Israel to Palestine, as a drop of ethnic cleansing, but the inhabitants would rather be Israeli Arabs.

US citizens: support the Truth in Settlements Act.

I might suggest going even further: rather than publicizing the details of these settlements so as to embarrass the government out of accepting weak provisions, why not rule out weak provisions?

How "too big to fail" turns into "too big to jail".

Taxing banks' gross income, at a percentage that increases with the size of the bank, would put large banks under financial pressure to split up.