Some unions that represent many cops have adopted policies to lead and press them to act like police officers. Officially, they will no longer defend thugs.

Making changes in this area is easier said than done. We will see to what extent this decision is effective.

Amnesty International says Israel has a pattern of air attacks on civilians.

The UK deportation thugs imprisoned refugees that they did not need to imprison, then held them in solitary confinement for more than a year.

*Challenge bigotry by all means, but outlaw it? I’d rather not.*

The UK is considering a law to prohibit political censorship in universities and another law to require censorship by antisocial media. Both are projects of the Tory Party.

Freedom of speech includes the freedom to make statements we disagree with or disapprove of. To respect freedom of speech, we must maintain the distinction between offending people and harming them.

Biologists are scrambling to find a way to help some coral survive longer against global heating,

Identifying heat-resistant coral species, or breeding some species to be more heat-resistant, cannot possibly protect more than a fraction of the coral species that exist now. The only way to preserve reef biodiversity is to halt the increase of CO2 in the air.

Meanwhile, ocean acidification will eventually wipe out all coral and many other kinds of ocean life.