In Shishmaref, Alaska, no one can miss the effects of global heating. They affect hunting and even survival of the prey animals. They are also destroying the town's land and houses.

Two proposed bills would make small advances in Americans' rights against credit-reporting companies.

The US has interfered in elections in many countries around the world, doing things a lot nastier than what Russia is accused of doing now.

That's in addition to overthrowing elected governments in Guatemala, Iran, Haiti and Honduras.

This does not mean we should passively allow Russia to stir up racism and division in the US. But we should stop our country from doing wrong in the future.

How prison gangs create order in US prisons — and to criminals outside prison.

If essentially all the prisoners have "forbidden" cell phones, and the guards know this, I expect the guards do more than just search for them once in a while. With a Stingray they can identify the phones. I'm sure they know how to convert them to listening devices, too.

Note: other articles say that prisoners can be labeled as gang-affiliated based on vague suggestive evidence and that this leads to heavy additional punishment.

Despite the efforts of racists, most Americans still welcome immigrants.

I too welcome immigrants, in small quantities. It's the large number of immigrants that causes the problem of increasing the total population of the US. That weighs on the whole world, since immigrants to the US are almost compelled to have the same sort of carbon footprint as native-born Americans.