China has banned the importation of plastic waste. Perhaps China now produces so much plastic waste of its own that its recycling capacity is now saturated.

Countries need pay for proper disposal of plastic waste, and make the cost of disposal part of the cost of plastic by taxing plastic accordingly.

Republicans want to allow oil drilling in exactly the places that caribou have their calves each year.

Australia has legalized same-sex marriage.

Rosa Parks didn't unleash the Montgomery bus boycott by accident. She was an activist; the boycott was carefully planned and then carefully supported. That's what enabled the blacks of Montgomery to persist and win.

Crisis of Honduras Democracy Has Roots in US Tacit Support for 2009 Coup.