Some major oil companies say they now recognize the danger of global heating and aim to move to renewable energy — while continuing to donate millions to the American Petroleum Institute, which uses the funds to block government action for climate defense.

When companies say they support climate defense, we should challenge them to publish the list of their donations.

One more prisoner in Guantanamo has been freed. That is 2.5% of the way to closing the prison. However, Biden still has no plan for how to finish the job or to put an end to the injustice of imprisonment without trial.

The US should never have taken prisoners of war out of Afghanistan. If it called someone a criminal it should have given per a fair trial.

Various countries have accused China of utilizing a bug in nonfree software, specifically Microsoft Exchange, to spy on email of many companies and organizations.

The problem with these accusations is that they don't show us the reported proof, so we can only take the claim on faith (or not). I see no reason to doubt that China would engage in such digital spying, nor the US, the UK, or Australia.

The article spreads confusion by referring to "intellectual property." From the context, I know it must refer to trade secrets, because nothing else makes sense — but most people don't know that it can't refer to copyrights, patents, trademarks, geographical product names, or any others of the long list of disparate laws that the term refers to. Most people confuse these things with each other, and "intellectual property" encourages that confusion.

Please join me in shunning that term.

*Republicans, so called party of family values, do not support needy families.*

This has been true since the 1960s; back then, the Democratic Party was the party of Liberals, who supported the same causes that Progressives support today, and the Republican Party opposed them (but did not oppose environmental protection and abortion rights the way it does today).

Foreign powers have chosen Haiti's new prime minister. This continues decades of nondemocratic rule imposed from outside.