* Almost everything we grow and raise in the US is facing some climatic stress.*

Ten years from now, it will go beyond inconvenient shortages and cause widespread hunger in the US. And if we don't curb global heating soon, the next step will be famine.

* Silicon Valley lobbied to change EU policy. Europe needs better ways to hold firms like Google and Meta to account.*

The once-a-decade biodiversity preservation summit ended in failure due to a lack of political will to achieve the goal.

The Christian extremists on the US Supreme Court wants to impose Christianity on the US. As a first step, it has voted to permit public school teachers pray loudly with students, pressuring the students to accept it.

School team athletes won't dare disagree with their coach, who could easily kick them off the team. They are at his mercy.

When the government describes private businesses as "partners", we have to suspect they have converted it into a partner for their profit. That is corruption.

The last example, that of private space stations, might not be so bad. If the three companies operate space stations at their own expense, and make a profit, that's not corruption. However, if the government subsidizes them all to "compete", we won't get the benefits of private competition, so we may as well pay publicly for a space station owned and run by the country.