New technology will lead to a large increase in US oil extraction in the coming decade. This will lead to economic pressure on the US government not to "throw away the investment" by not extracting all that oil.

Scientists forecast "widespread misery and catastrophic biodiversity" if we don't cut back emissions.

Do we want to "throw away" all the investment we have made in our civilization? Burning the oil can do that. To avoid it, we need to leave 80% of the known reserves -- as of a few years ago -- in the ground.

TSA employees fail to find weapons or bombs a lot more than half the time in tests.

The UK itself has laws that serve great for tax dodging.

The Republicans' tax attacks favor people who get money from investments over people who work for their income.

A thug shot a knife-armed man over and over, and is being sued by the man's relatives. An appeals court ruled he is not entitled to immunity.

I can understand how a person can become enraged and continue shooting someone threatening even after that person has ceased to be dangerous. But people should not do a job that involves carrying a gun unless they have enough self control not to do that. Once Zion was on the ground, he with his knife was not an immediate threat to anyone; Higgens should have stopped shooting immediately then.