How people learn to prefer new technically advanced diminished substitutes for direct conversation.

Most of the inhabitants have returned to the town of Jalawla, liberated from PISSI in February, but there is no money to rebuild what was destroyed.
Meanwhile, the Kurds and the Iraqi government dispute control of the town.

The Canadian government has approved a new oil pipeline, to be built by the company we could call Unkind Warmin', but Canadians are determined to stop it anyway.

The Trump building across the Hudson from Manhattan was built using a government subsidy for visas for foreign workers.

People who are almost blind, but not 100%, face a lot of misunderstandings.
The right-wing theocratic rule that limited use of embryonic stem cells impeded research into treating retinitis pigmentosa with stem cells to restore people's sight. Their objection was based entirely on religious irrationality. Obama eliminated this restriction; will Trump impose it again?