A foreign visitor in the US is struck by the stark and extreme poverty. It's the same feeling I got when I first visited India and saw the shanty towns in the middle of the city.

This is what plutocracy does.

Current Record-Shattering Temperatures Are Shocking to Even Climate Scientists.

When this El Niño ends, temperatures will go down somewhat. We can expect the planet roasters to say, "This shows we're safe!" That's because they are playing for time: time to sell more fossil fuels, time to lock more investment into future fossil fuels.

A Russian show trial found a captured Ukrainian solder guilty of war crimes, disregarding evidence that she was somewhere else at the time.

The way to understand Putin: think of Donald Trump, only clever.

I am looking for people to help webmasters make simple but substantial changes in their web sites — for instance, to use the GNU Project's recommended terminology.

"What price an Olympics that protects the rights of children and their families?"

Olympic games do harm in many ways. I am glad that the people of Boston pushed away the olympics bid that was planned, and I urge the people of every city to organize against such plans.