Ukraine's strategic situation facing an artillery war of attrition.

I suggest that Ukraine forcibly evacuate civilians from cities facing attack. We all know, from reports from Mariupol, that the Putin forces carry out unpredictable repression against the civilian population. If the presence of civilians in an area of combat puts the military in strategic danger, it must avoid their presence.

A lab that has studied for decades the intelligence of jays and rooks will be shut down for lack of funds. There may be little work in this field without it.

*A person of conscience and integrity would never have found himself in the position that Mike Pence was in on January 6. A man with courage would have stood up to Trump sooner; a man of moral commitment would never have worked for him in the first place.*

The Republicans that broke with the wrecker and refused to support him in overtly attacking the US election were prepared to go along with him into betrayal, but there was a limit to how far they would go. They are villains, not heroes, but they were not total villains.

*The attack on the US Capitol wasn’t the isolated doing of [the corrupter] and a few loyalists. Nearly the entire Republican party is now united behind it -– and the attack on democracy hasn’t ended.*

For cities to confront global heating, they need redesign on several dimensions.

However, this is no substitute for stopping global heating.

Australia's supreme court awarded indigenous groups the power to partially naturalize people as Australian citizens. The government is seeking to reverse the ruling.

The policy established by the ruling makes no sense in terms of human rights. It can only be understood as a form of discrimination based on ethnicity.

over the 19th century, the English colonists kicked the aboriginals off their land, in many cases by massacring them. This was an enormous crime, Based on the human rights of their descendants, who continue to be harmed by that crime, it calls for reparations to them.

Those descendants are the same indigenous people who compose the groups which have been granted this special power -- but that we should not think of that power as implementing the necessary reparations, because (1) it will help only a few of those who are due reparations, and (2) rather than reducing the preexisting inequality, it creates an additional form of inequality.