Republican policies amount to a war on the poor.

Governor McAuliffe of Virginia has restored the voting rights of 13,000 people previously convicted of felonies. He promised to do this for the other 200,000 disenfranhised people in Virginia, but it is going to take time; some will miss the next election.

The US GDP is projected to be almost 1/4 less in 2100 due to global heating. That is comparable to the great depression of the 1930s. However, global heating won't stop in 2100. Things will continue getting worse.

Put this together with plutocrats' concentration of wealth, and the impact on non-rich Americans is likely to be more than a quarter. This will kill millions of Americans.

And much larger numbers of people in other parts of the world.

The International Federation of Journalists condemned Israel for keeping Palestinian journalist Omar Nazzal in prison without trial.

US national parks are under threat from a political system dominated by extractivist plutocrats.