The biased Republican judge who was asked to ban Mifepristone went ahead and did it. The appeals court and the Supreme Court, both Republican, are likely try uphold the ban.

*World’s ocean surface temperature hits record high.*

*Democrats bid to use [DeMentis'] censorship law against [him] and ban his book.*

*Politicians are right about the ‘decline of the west’ — but so wrong about the causes. The problem is not moral decay. It’s the withering away of our living standards, security and wellbeing.*

Israeli religious fanatics have imposed by law a prohibition on bringing leavened bread into hospitals during Passover.

Religious fanatics seek above all to impose their religion's obsessions on everyone. The amount of trouble those obsessions cause varies greatly. Banning bread for a week is rather mild as these things go. Shutting down public transport on Saturday, which the same group achieved some decades ago, is worse, but still minor compared to the ban on abortion that some Christian and Muslim fanatics impose.

However, giving religious believers the power to impose their obsessions on everyone is harmful in itself, independent of the specific obsessions they choose.