Texas prisoners started a hunger strike to protest solitary confinement lasting years, sometimes even decades.

The pretext for this is anything the authorities take to be a sign of association with a gang, as in California.

Rebecca Solnit: *Fossil fuels kill more people than Covid. Why are we so blind to the harms of oil and gas?*

WHO's estimate of the number of deaths from Covid is surely far too low, since many countries such as India did not try to count them all. Nonetheless, I expect her statement is still true.

Forgiveness of loans enabled Germany to recover economically after World War II. Now other countries need the same help.

US society and government policies undermine public schools; then people put all the blame for the bad results on the teachers.

*India enjoyed a free and vibrant media. Narendra Modi's brazen attacks are a catastrophe.*

The article lists a long series of persecutions of journalists on absurd charges.