One of the consequences of India's birth rate is that massive poverty continues. That makes young people so desperate that they go accept offers from "placement agents" that lead to enslavement.

The Indian government ought to prosecute these crooks and jail them. But that will be difficult: the level of corruption is such that they can buy their way out.

I think the long-term solution is contraception.

The school buildings of Oklahoma are falling apart, some students don't have desks, and their textbooks are decades old.

The plutocrats prefer it this way because they don't need to hire so many educated and skilled workers any more. They think it is fine if half the country graduates unemployable, since the robots will have eliminated that many jobs anyway.

Due to budget cutting on all non-military aspects of life, deranged people get left in jails for months or years, waiting to be seen by psychiatrists.

US citizens: call for an investigation of Pruitt's concealment of toxic water pollution.

Rare bird species are headed toward extinction due to poisoning from eating lead shot.

It would be straightforward to avoid this problem by switching to steel.