Americans worry about nearly all sorts of problems more than about climate mayhem.

I suppose that's because they have short time horizons. The danger of global heating will grow across decades, but unless you're living in certain drought areas, the chances it will hurt you in the US in the next few years are small.

Texas raids on Planned Parenthood are collecting patients' health records.

The UAE prosecutes many women for being raped.

This is among the most extreme of the many injustices of Islamic law, which generally displays contempt for human rights, especially those of women.

South Park explains gentrification.

Once in India I stayed in a hotel called South Park. Apparently the TV show was not known there. There is also a chain of fine Bengali restaurants in India called "Oh! Calcutta!". The people who work there do not know about either the theater piece or the painting that made the name notorious. It was a lot of fun giving them copies of the painting and the publicity photo of the theater piece.

Morocco is building large solar-thermal electric plants that can keep producing electricity for hours after sundown.

The idea of exporting solar electricity from Morocco to Saudi Arabia seems silly to me, simply because it would be more efficient to site the solar generators in Saudi Arabia than to transmit the electricity there from afar. Can the electricity be used to condense water out of the air and grow plants?