Putin's sock puppet regime, the Donetsk People's Republic, says it will execute US citizens who joined Ukraine's army. Putin claims to have no control over this.

The US could respond by bombarding Ukraine's enemies in the Donetsk People's Republic. If Putin has no control over that country, he has no basis to complain.

The war in Ukraine will have to end through negotiations between Ukraine and Putin.

I agree that we should not pressure Ukraine into accepting defeat, nor into fighting further if at some point it cannot continue.

One single Democratic state assembly member had the power to block a bill to divest California pension funds from fossil fuels, so that the assembly could not vote on it.

The Jan 6 investigation committee is making its message clear on TV, but not following through to call Americans' attention to it effectively, even as the party of the lie is working to draw attention away.

Fossil fuel companies have invented a new measure called "carbon intensity" which they pledge to reduce. But it is a mirage: they can decrease "carbon intensity" of their activities while increasing the total emissions from burning their product.