Elephants are on the path to extinction.

Tropical forest trees depend on elephants to disperse seeds. Thus, elephant poachers endanger the whole forest.

The US has made it so difficult to survive legally without a government ID that ex-prisoners can be pushed back into crime because they can't get one.

A woman, who was in a peaceful protest in Baton Rouge when the thugs rioted, reports on what she saw.

It appears that Assad's army continues using poison gas. The more this goes on, the more the idea of chemical weapons may come to seem normal and acceptable.

However, it is hard to see how to punish Assad for this in the complex situation of Syria.

A tape of a speech by Ayatollah Montazeri proves that Iran killed thousands of dissidents (and people who converted from Muslims to anything else) in 1988.

What a shame that Khomeini was replaced by another cruel theocrat, rather than by Montazeri who might have ended theocratic tyranny.