A small Alaskan town is forced to relocate as rapid erosion is making the town fall into the adjoining river.

This is a more important issue than it might seem, because it's going to happen to millions of Americans (and millions of others) as global heating makes sea level rise and make storms stronger. The proper response would be to curb global heating, but our governments, corrupted by fossil fuel businesses, lack the political will to save us.

Several people were killed when a Cambodian shoe factory collapsed.

They were killed by psychopaths (corporations). Americans should cease their inordinate preoccupation with a comparatively small killing in Boston, which is unlikely to be repeated, and focus on these bigger killings which we know will be repeated.

US citizens: Support the bill to increase social security benefits.

Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream.

Education is one of the things the US needs to support more by taxing the rich and the companies more.

China is closing the microblog accounts of influential people who have posted criticism.

Murong Xuecun, one of them, writes about what it is like to be "reincarnated" on the Internet.