Legal abortion has always been safer than giving birth.

Island nations in the Pacific Ocean are trying to unite to fight their common enemy: global heating.

China has arrested four Hong Kongers, former democracy activists, for trying to escape.

The Suicide Six ski lodge is changing it's name because people criticized use of the word "suicide" as insensitive.

I firmly oppose the campaign to make such words unacceptable to use. It was already going too far to demand everyone avoid any word that someone might take offense at. But this pressure demands even more. It demands we tiptoe through life, always timid because of possible sensitivity.

I can imagine the same critics demanding that the Grateful Dead change it's name — or else, that radio stations boycott it's music.

Calls to move the Cop27 climate conference out of Egypt, because Egypt is planning to keep activists away from the government representatives and because queer people attending face the threat of arrest and torture.

It should have been obvious in advance that Egypt was a bad place to hold an international conference, so why was the plan made to hold it there? Perhaps because it is a bad place. Many conferences have been sited in countries that will prevent protestors from showing up.