Baltimore had no increase in crime after Michael Brown was shot in Ferguson, Missouri, but did have a spurt in crimes after thugs in Baltimore killed Freddie Gray.

In the Arctic, 2016 was the year without a winter.

Or, perhaps we should say, the first year without a winter.

US schools sometimes punish students in cruel ways for the smallest defiance.

I am not surprised that this happens more often to black male students. Unconscious racism would be enough to cause that.

Russian bombs in Syria have killed 2000 civilians in the 6-month period of intervention.

US civil officials are too subservient to the military on questions of whether to fight wars.