*[Natural] gas won't fuel Australia's recovery or reduce emissions. The truth is gas is both too expensive and too dirty. We’ve known this for nearly a decade.*

New Zealand's birth rate has fallen due to economic insecurity.

That is a good reason to postpone having children, if you are planning to have them. But should New Zealanders have them at all?

The population density of New Zealand is around 50 per square mile (5% that of Massachusetts). A large part of New Zealand's area is wild. Perhaps its population is already sustainable, or at least in the right order of magnitude. If so, New Zealand is a fortunate exception, since the global human population is far beyond sustainable.

*Philadelphia city council apologizes for deadly 1985 Move bombing.*

India is imposing censorship on internet publication and communication. One thing we can be sure will not be censored is right-wing extremism.

Glenn Greenwald has decided to resign from The Intercept because it has adopted a hard partisan line, and refused to let him publish anything which goes against that line.

It censored his work in despite of a contract agreeing not to do so.