A US school district removed To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Finn from the high school curriculum because they portray racism in its rawness.

I don't think anyone is going to find tolerance for racism in To Kill a Mockingbird. It is too long since I read Huckleberry Finn, so I don't have an opinion about it.

However, American racists are now so blatant that we may not need books from 50 to 60 years ago to show how ugly racism is.

Making fibre for clothing from food waste, to avoid using petroleum and polluting the ocean with plastic.

A campaign of protests targets Apple in France for tax-dodging. Apple is seeking to ban the protests and fine the protesters.

It is Apple that deserves to be fined — or rather, taxed.

Police officer Mader treated an armed and suicidal black man the way thugs typically treat only whites. But this was no use — some thugs arrived as "backup" and shot that man immediately. Then thug department fired him for not acting like a thug.

Mader sued the thug department and won.

I hope he finds a job as a police officer again.

Australia's disregard is allowing species to go extinct.

The disregard is so big that the government is allowing businesses to cut down large areas of wild forest.