Large parts of Australia are stricken by drought again, after just a couple of years of adequate rain since the previous drought.

This combines with the effects of the hot weather. Global heating is expected to make Australia more arid as well as generally hotter. It is also expected to reduce global food production; indeed, it seems to be already doing so.

In 1971, heroic activists stole FBI documents that proved the FBI was infiltrating US dissidents.

They found that the FBI had specifically tried to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. into committing suicide.

One of the activists explains what they did and why.

The USDA's standards for approving GMOs are limited to such narrow concerns that they are little different from deregulation.

Puncturing the right-wing claim that the US should have kept the Bush forces in Iraq.

In Brazilian Amazonia, enforcement of laws to protect the forest is so weak that the loggers barely put a fig leaf over it.