A Green New Deal Is Fiscally Responsible. Climate Inaction Is Not.

"Who are the true realists? Those backing the Green New Deal, or those backing ineffective half measures?"

Algerians Take to the Streets over President's Plan to Seek Fifth Term.

Algeria is rather repressive; protesting like that is not an easy choice.

Many millennials are having pets instead of babies.

If that helps you avoid children, it is a good idea, but what's the sense of paying someone else to keep company with your dog instead of you? It's like paying someone else to spend time with your friends for you: it defeats the purpose of friendship, whether that be with a human or with a dog.

It is absurd to pamper your dog expensively; that obsession makes for stress and spoils the fun. A dog will not live as long as a human, and a dog's death is not the same loss as a human's death.

School shootings affect a tiny fraction of the students in US schools, but the preparations for dealing with the possibility subject every student to psychological trauma.

This article doesn't even count the school-to-prison pipeline in the harm.

70% of Zimbabwe's population was starving due to drought. Then Cyclone Idai destroyed most of the remaining crops.

Long droughts and big rains are both typical effects of global heating. If millions of people flee Zimbabwe for the wealthier countries that have some food, it will be partly our fault that they can't survive at home.