A Republican congresscritter told supporters that the party's goal is sabotage: "18 more months of chaos and the inability to get stuff done."

We who oppose them must not sink to their level. But they are conscious enemies of our country, and of our democracy, and this justifies many tactics that are somewhat bad, and that ordinarily we should scruple to sink to. For instance, making Washington DC a state (rather than authorizing its residents to vote in Maryland), and increasing or decreasing the size of the Supreme Court.

As long as we remain solidly more scrupulous than they are, we should fight to win.

Lukashenko is closing all gaps in the official repression in Belarus.

He had a news site editor arrested for covering last year's protests, and blocked access to the news site.

Various countries that had suppressed Covid-19 successfully are struggling to suppress the Delta variant.

Extreme rain events are mostly due to global heating.

*Extreme temperatures kill 5 million people a year.*

In the past, more have died from cold than from heat, but global heating is increasing the latter.