The University of Texas owns lots of rural land which is leased out for fracking.

I wonder: what steps can the university lawfully take that would reduce the amount of fracking on the land it owns? I expect that at the very least it could refuse to sign any more fracking leases. Is there a way it can go further than that?

Parents can oppose turning US schools into fortresses.

The article does not even mention the biggest danger of armed guards in schools: if they are not merely armed, but also have the power to arrest, they will feed students into the school-to-prison pipeline.

Most school thugs will pass their whole careers without shooting anyone, but they are likely to arrest several students each year.

Orbán amended Hungary's constitution to permit severe repression of homeless people.

If you find it annoying to find homeless people living on streets in your neighborhood, think how annoying it is for them to be homeless. How about participating in providing them with decent housing?

From Kiribati to Australia: stop making our islands uninhabitable.

The IPCC report says that we have 12 years to curb global heating, but that is assuming we don't hit a tipping point first.

Since we don't actually know where the tipping points are, we need to act even faster if we want to be (fairly) safe.