Chicago's striking teachers won gains in pay, smaller class sizes, and better support for some kinds of students.

Everyone: call on Japan's biggest banks to stop financing coal.

If you call, please spread the word!

Neonicotinoids used on rice paddies in Japan runs off into waterways, where it kills aquatic insects. The result was to wipe out eels and smelts.

Google got its Snoop City plan for Toronto past one administrative hurdle by shrinking it down to just a few blocks.

The depth of snooping in the zone is more important than its area, because the former would be used as a precedent. Toronto should reject this proposal entirely unless the plan requires systems not to identify individuals.

There is no documented case of a registered sex offender's sexually abusing a child in connection with Halloween, but many parts of the US harass them with annoying precautions against it all the same.