Arizona Democrats are very angry with Senator Sinema and are threatening to vote her out.

Australia has driven the regent honeyeater almost to extinction, and it is pushing hard to finish the job.

Ecuadorians' lawyer against Chevron, Steven Donziger, has been sentenced to 6 months in prison for refusing to give Chevron all his confidential communication with his clients.

This is part of Chevron's long scheme to avoid paying its fine of ten billion dollars for poisoning part of Ecuador.

Culture is for appropriating. But we still see people condeming the failure to maintain the racial purity of cultural practices.

Kwame Anthony Appiah demolished the condemnation of "cultural appropriation", and said it better than I could say it. He also explains the correct understanding of certain situations where people perceive offense and conceptualize the issue as "cultural appropriation."

I did not appropriate this position from him -- I'm proud to have thought of it independently. But if I had learned it from him, I'd be grateful.

Chinese women are very worried that China will restrict abortions to force them to have babies.

In China, as in many other parts of the world, life for people born now is going to get very hard in a few decades. People in North China will have to deal with fatal weather.

Much of South China, a large region around the Yangtze River, will face sea level rise. Coping with the inconvenience of a falling population will be easy by comparison.