The World Health Organization's Tough Tactics Against Tobacco and E-Cigs
The United Nations' public health agency achieves consensus through mass detentions and media censorship.
United Nations
Is Climate Change Already Solved?
"The market is clearly headed towards clean energy, and that trend will only become more pronounced."
Keep It In The Ground: A Global Carbon Budget
"Globally, a third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80 per cent of current coal reserves should remain unused."
John Kerry's Climate Change Swan Song at Marrakech
"No one has the right to make decisions that affect billions of people based solely on ideology."
2016 Could Edge Out 1998 as Hottest Year in Satellite Temperature Record
U.N. climate change meeting opens today in Marrakech, Morocco.
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Paris Climate Agreement Comes Into Effect
U.S. not on track to meet Obama's promised greenhouse gas cuts
John Bolton, Trump's Likely Secretary of State, Is Addicted to Regime Change
How does this square with the candidate's stated foreign policies?
U.S., Other Powers Open Door to Arming Provisional Libya Government
U.S. troops on the ground seeking potential fighting partners.
Early Lessons From Marijuana Legalization in Colorado
A new report from the state Department of Public Safety considers the consequences.
Museum of Drug Policy Pops Up in New York For U.N. Special Session on "World Drug Problem"
Unlike the feckless diplomats a few blocks away, artists presented a clear and devastating picture of the global war on drugs.
Earth Day 2016: Paris Climate Agreement Signed
Too weak or a giant bureaucratic threat to democracy?
Earth Day: U.S. and 170 Countries Sign Paris Climate Agreement: New at Reason
Saving the planet or just massively expanding activist and bureaucratic power?
U.N. Drug Policy Meeting's Banal Consensus Masks Encouraging Disagreements
"Putting people first" might mean legalizing drugs, or it might mean beheading drug dealers.
What the World Can Learn From Colorado's Marijuana Experience
A new report suggests some tentative observations about the consequences of legalization.
Lancet Commission Recommends Drug Legalization
As the U.N. prepares for a special session on "the world drug problem," 22 experts catalog the costs of prohibition.
Paris Climate Change Conference
Paris Climate Warriors in a Good Mood
Second Dispatch: Also they believe that global warming a is huge business opportunity.
World Could Still Keep Future Man-Made Warming Below 2 Degrees Celsius
So says the new U.N. analysis of national climate plans from 146 countries
The 'Climate Justice' Fantasy
The rough road to adopting a universal climate treaty at Paris in December
That Time the UN Almost Called for Decriminalizing Drug Use
Virgin CEO Richard Branson leaks document to Drug Policy Alliance.
Sloppy U.N. Cyberviolence Report Uses Damsels in Digital Distress to Cheer Censorship
Why did the U.N. feel justified in recommending such illiberal censorship policies while providing such shoddy evidence to back their claims?
Global Deforestation Rate Has Fallen by Half Says New Report
And there are far more trees than researchers previously thought - more than 3 trillion
UN Security Council Unanimously Approves Iran Nuclear Deal
Deal impossible without Security Council approval
The Relentless March Toward a New Universal Agreement on Climate Change
Rich countries commit to total decarbonization of the global economy.
Killer Robots Should Be Banned, Says Human Rights Watch
Warbots might actually behave more morally than soldiers.
Unions Pressure UN Women to Drop Uber Partnership Meant to Create Jobs for Women
UN Women partnered with Uber to create 1 million jobs just two weeks ago.
Lunar Licensing: Promoting and Protecting Private Business on the Moon
Why not instead an interplanetary Homestead Act and Mining Law?
The Paris Climate Negotiations Next Year Will Be a Fiasco
Why there will not be a global climate change treaty in 2015
Debunking John Kerry's Claim That Climate Change Is a Great Investment Opportunity
If renewable, new nuclear, or even fusion energy is actually becoming cheaper than conventional fossil fuels, why would the world need an international treaty at all?
Obama's Possible Paris Climate Agreement End Run Around the Senate
Foreign negotiators, activists, and journalists are very worried about Senate Republicans
U.S. Climate Fair Share: 82 Percent Emissions Cut by 2030?
Plus $810 billion in climate debt payments annually to poor countries?
United Colors of Benetton Aims to 'End Violence Against Women Now' With Sexy Stoning Ad
Ready for some cause marketing gone very, very wrong?
China and America Climate Change Blame Game
Discord on who's responsible for fixing the weather at U.N. climate confab.
Obama Mentions Ferguson at UN: U.S. Has Racial, Ethnic Tensions Too
That was your takeaway from Ferguson?
Flood Wall Street Climate Change Protest Is a Washout
Imposing equality is the goal; climate change is the excuse
A Parade of Progressive Causes at the People's Climate March
No Nukes, No Fracking, No GMOs, and Certainly No Capitalism
