Romanian gymnasts were brutally beaten by their trainers when they did not perform well.

Some big US banks sponsored "climate week" to publicly endorse curbing global heating, but privately they still fund fossil fuels.

The banks are Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, and BNP Paribas. Bank of America is funding the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Whenever a large company that is heavily involved with fossil fuels talks about reducing emissions from its own operations, it always strikes me as a distraction campaign.

In Arizona, bathing a baby or changing a diaper is now sexual assault. This is the natural development of the general US paranoia about anything that involves an adult and a child.

Officials surely won't prosecute every adult that touches a baby's behind — only those that officials dislike for some reason.

Curiously, I read that in the past it was common for Hopi mothers to rub male babies' penises to calm them down.

Frackers dump toxic waste straight into the Gulf of Mexico.

In Finland, children don't start school classes until age 7. Before that, they play — sometimes freely, sometimes led by a teacher.

After that, there is no need to struggle to get your children into a good school, because all the schools are good.

Another key to Finland's great educational system is a very good welfare system that ensures that hardly any children live in poverty. That saves them from stress that could contort their minds later in life.

To a large extent, the cause of bad educational outcomes is (1) insufficient funds for the school and (2) poverty in children's lives. Thus, when the US and the UK construct excuses to put the blame on the teachers, the teachers are being used as scapegoats.