*America's food deserts start seeing influx of healthy foods thanks to federal funds.*

Putin seems to be playing the "fear me, I'm a madman" card, and it is a mistake to be too scared. However, it's right to avoid making real threats to escalate, because even a non-madman might react drastically to that.

Supporters of taking the UK out of the European Union touted the benefit of restricting imports and putting a tariff on them. But now a minister has admitted that actually doing it is too expensive. Having made Britain pay the enormous price, they don't want what they bought.

This suggests it was dishonest political distraction all along, like the bullshitter's border wall.

I said years ago that the only way for leaving the EU to benefit Britain would be to have the Left in charge. Corbyn, for instance, as leader of Labour, could have discarded the EU's plutocratic rules while keeping the good aspects.

Various sects of Muslim fanatics are bombing mosques in Afghanistan.

How the future of journalism depends on Julian Assange's freedom.