Humans have wiped out the most evolutionarily unusual mammals, lopping off branches of the evolutionary tree. It will take 3 to 7 million years for evolution to replace the lost diversity.

'You Couldn't Make This Up': A Bunch of Mops, Cleaners, and Trash Bags Delivered to Saudi Consulate Ahead of Khashoggi Murder Probe.

Matthew Hedges visited Dubai for two weeks and was then arrested and charged with spying. He has been kept in solitary for 5 months and is now being tried, effectively without a lawyer.

My guess is that some of the questions he asked for academic purposes were somehow sensitive to the rulers of Dubai, and they reacted in typical Dubai fashion.

Increasing global inequality makes poor people desperately overrun the wild, while it influences the global middle class to compete to consume. That's the opposite of what the world needs.

In the first few decades of the United States, rich people were met with disapproval. As a result, they didn't flaunt their wealth, and people generally felt less ambition to get rich beyond their needs.

If we begin expressing mild disapproval towards people who are inordinately wealthy, we can start that pressure going again.

Few Democrats Offer Alternatives to War-Weary Voters.

Sanders will ask the Senate again to cancel US support for the war in Yemen.