When business says "flexibility", think "exploitation."

Zero-hours piecework contracts are the extreme form, but lesser forms of "flexibility" are exploitation too.

Religious fanatics in Brazil are trying to ban abortion absolutely, with a constitutional amendment like the one Ireland is about to vote on eliminating.

Many Brazilian women are already dying from underground abortions. I suggest turning their funerals into rallies for abortion rights. If religious people direct hostility at you, don't let that shut you up.

Racism manifests itself in schools, as black students are judged more harshly and punished more often.

The EU has banned the use of palm oil for biofuels, and farmers in Malaysia that think only of their own income are angry.

The EU's new policy does not go far enough. Growing crops for biofuel, if they require irrigation, fertilizer, pesticide or land suitable at the time for other agriculture, is a self-defeating practice and ought to banned entirely.

A number of aging scientists dare to say that, on its current track, civilization is doomed due to global heating.