Liberal justices argued in the Supreme Court that the Texas bounty-hunter approach to prohibition would, if allowed to stand, enable any state to wipe out any constitutional right.

*Minneapolis voters reject bid to replace police with public safety department. *

I'm disappointed; this would have made it possible to avoid using armed cops on most instances.

The US and other main historical greenhouse gas smitters spend more on keeping migrants out than they spend on helping poor countries deal with global heating effects

that drive people to leave.

The Archbishop of Canterbury presented clearly how much is at stake when political leaders decide how hard to push to curb global heating: inadequate effort could result in a much bigger genocide than the one Hitler launched.

Apparently some criticized this statement as disrespectful to Jews, and he apologized for the alleged disrespect. This criticism puzzles me, because I don't see any disrespect in his words. They seem entirely valid to me as a statement of the danger that we face. What are you going to compare the biggest genocide of all time with, other than the biggest known genocide of the past?

I think that 6 billion deaths from climate mayhem is plausible. Of course, that's just handwaving -- we can't know enough to make more than a rough estimate. If we take effective action and are lucky, perhaps only a few hundred million will die from climate disorder. If we run into surprise positive feedbacks, all 7-8 billion humans could die from climate disorder. All depends on how effectively we curb global heating.

Biden urged OPEC to increase its oil output to relieve a temporary shortfall of oil, and acknowledged the irony of this.

He's right, in a narrow sense. However, I think the economic harm of capping fossil fuel extraction at the current level would be far less than the harm done by allowing extraction to increase as the market would happen.

An intermediate option would be better if it reduces extraction effectively and soon. Perhaps Biden should have demanded such a deal before asking OPEC to increase extraction.