Farms for Christmas trees spray toxic pesticides while workers are planting trees nearby. The Republicans want to help them keep it that way.

Workers are also required to work 12 hours a day without access to drinking water. No wonder the only people they can hire are Mexicans, probably undocumented.

If they treated the workers decently and payed more, they could find US citizens to hire. The trees would cost more. Good! Let's make them do this, let's make all the employers in the US do this. Let's buy products that cost more because they aren't based on endangering workers.

Perhaps we won't buy quite so much goods — we could instead give the Earth a bit of a rest.

Burma's violent expulsion of Rohingyas has continued into December.

The Palestinian Authority Is Using a New Cyber-Crimes Law to Crack Down on Dissent.

In effect, Israel and Palestine are working arm in arm for this one unjust goal.

Crowd-control weapons, often used against protesters, are less likely than guns to kill, but they do kill, and they cause permanent injury too.

Big digital companies are pushing the WTO to give them dominance over digital life in all the signatory countries.