Chip factories in Taiwan are having trouble getting enough water, as Taiwan suffers form a drought. Global heating will lead to more and worse droughts there.

Powerful countries should not allow their manufacture of any critical product to be concentrated in one region or a few regions. Such centralization leads to vulnerability — to various kinds of problems.

The way to reduce the vulnerability, to threats of many unrelated kinds, is to disperse production.

The would-be tyrant had the Department of Justice seize communications records of Democrats in Congress and their staff and relatives, as part of a leak investigation.

In this article, an official claims this was meant as punishment, not real investigation.

(satire) *Pfizer Announces Breakthrough Medication That Will Treat Executives To New Chalet In Swiss Alps.*

The UK has received the suggestion to fill a shortfall in funds for universities from low-income graduates, by reducing the income threshold above which they must repay their student loans.

That sounds like the sort of soak-the-poor plan that Tories would love.

An enormous group of investment funds are calling on governments to speed up greenhouse emissions reduction.

Two notable exceptions are Blackrock and Vanguard, which deserve specific rejection by the public.

If these funds are serious about the matter, they could exert strong pressure on corporations as stockholders. Their lobbying power could be significant too.