Economists consider that the biggest threat to the global economy this year is a regional disaster caused by global heating.

That's with 1C of global heating. With 2C of heating, such disasters would happen all the time, and the uncertainty would be in the precise details.

Everyone: call on TransCanada to drop its NAFTA lawsuit, which demands billions of dollars in "compensation" for the cancellation of the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline.

The way to deal with the crisis of student debt in the US is to make college gratis. The government should pay for it.

Going to college can increase a person's income (though this does not happen in every case), and it is fair that those who gain in this way should pay to support the system. With a proper progressive income tax, this would happen automatically.

Two hurricanes have formed in January, one in the Atlantic Ocean and one in the Central Pacific.

To have a hurricane in January in either place is a rarity. We are seeing an effect of global heating.

Americans exaggerate the danger of terrorism in the US by roughly 1,000,000 times, and this reaction creates a self-fulfilling prophecy, without which terrorism would occur even less.