The UK's hostility-to-foreigners agency hardly bothers to distinguish one foreigner from another. It sees no need to pay much attention to the details of the people it only seeks an excuse to deport.

Climate activists from California held a sit-in in Pelosi's Washington office, demanding she support the Green New Deal to protect the state from worse future fires.

In California, prisoners are paid a dollar per hour to fight fires, yet after they are released, they are not allowed to get the same work.

Prisoners working on something other than taking care of the prison should be paid the usual wage. And I support the bill to allow prisoners who did firefighting work to continue to do it afterward. (In general, we need to allow former prisoners to get decent jobs if we don't want them to be stuck in crime.)

However, it is an exaggeration to compare this to slavery. Prisoners are not compelled to fight fires.

Sea-level rise could put many of the world's great cities under water at high tide by 2050.

They include Bangkok, Mumbai, Shanghai, Alexandria, and most of Southern Vietnam. 150 million people would be displaced.

Giant earthworks could prevent some of these problems.

Iraqis (including Shi'ites) are now protesting against the influence of Iran in Iraq's government.