"If Democrats clean up their act and appeal to the working class again, that would be far more threatening to Trump than the Mueller investigation ever could be."

Indonesia's law against blasphemy continues to be used for oppression. A Buddhist has been sentenced to prison for asking a mosque to reduce the volume of its call to prayer. Muslims responded with lunatic violence by burning temples.

Blaspheming against any religion is part of human rights.

The Javari Valley, home to some of Brazil's uncontacted tribes and endangered species of wildlife, is under threat by constantly growing modern "civilization".

The human population cannot keep growing without limit. In the last gasp, civilization will try to plunder everything that remains, but this will buy only a few more years. Can we find the wisdom to stop population growth?

You can help, by doing as I have done: not having children.

Tens of millions of Americans suffer each year when forest fires fill the air with smoke, and some of them will get sick and even die from it. The cost of trying to protect and treat them will become too much.

It would be cheaper to build renewable power sources and prevent the problem.

In general, with global heating, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Over 360 immigrant minors taken from their parents may remain prisoners of the US for years because it already deported their parents and can't find them.

Since they were fleeing from violence, and were deported back to places where people threatened to murder them, they may be hiding — or they may already have been murdered.