The chlorofluorocarbon treaty is working: ozone depletion in the atmosphere has reduced by 20% since 12 years ago.

Early in 2016, North Korea offered Obama a deal: it would stop nuclear tests if the US stopped joint military exercises with South Korea. Obama rejected the deal.

Naturally, Obama was not as bad as the bully, but it now appears he made quite a mistake here.

The protest movement in Iran consists mainly of adults under 25, and they demand better pay and working conditions. Organizers are trying to convert this into a union movement.

Facebook compiles extensive profiles about people that are not its useds.

If you resist other forms of profiling, such as carrying tracking devices, identifying yourself to web sites, and paying other than with cash, you will deny lots of data to Facebook as well as to the others that accumulate that data. What data nobody collects, nobody can get.

Treating addiction as a moral failing is an excuse for denying the help that will enable a good fraction of addicts to quit.

In the case of obesity, part of the problem is that poverty, exacerbated by food deserts where poor people live, force them to eat badly. Is this their fault?

To a contemptuous right-winger, I suppose it seems that way.