Amazon spent 1.5 million dollars to weaken the majority of the Seattle City Council that advocated taxing Amazon more.

About the importance of coral reefs, and the several ways human activity is killing corals — including coastal development.

The US system of prosecution and punishment responds to public pressure, but mainly the powerful part of the public. This means it has evolved to support racism and the power of the rich, and (on some issues) sexism too.

The system isn't "broken", rather it evolved under pressure to do suppression rather than justice.

The article uses the word "designed", but I think that is a misnomer, for their punishment system just as for the genomes of living species. Neither one was designed as a whole; rather, decisions were made, step by step, under the selective pressures of the moment.

(satire) billions of blessed souls were forced to wander around Earth this week during a pest-control fumigation of Heaven.

Israeli soldiers say that they shot Palestinian child Abdul Rahman Shteiwi in the head with a rubber-coated bullet; but researches concluded he was shot with an ordinary bullet, the kind that is meant to kill.

They should not be shooting adult protesters, let alone 9-year-olds.