An Israeli diplomat and others tried to pressure Bard College to cancel a course that would compare the occupation of the West Bank to apartheid.

Eminent opponents of apartheid, including Desmond Tutu, have remarked on his similarity.

The IHRA criterion for antisemitism has been criticized for drawing this line in the wrong place.

Now that Ohio citizens have voted to amend Ohio's constitution to protect the right to have an abortion, anti-abortion Republican legislators are looking for ways to undermine it.

I wonder, how gerrymandered is Ohio? Would fair districting and protecting every citizen';s right to vote remove Republicans from power there?

[Australia's foreign minister] Penny Wong says, "steps towards ceasefire" in Israel-Hamas war "cannot be one-sided."

Actually, it's just the opposite: if you are committing war crimes, it behooves you to stop — regardless of what your enemies are doing. Neither Israel nor HAMAS can justify continuing crimes on the grounds that "our enemy is committing crimes and/or fighting us."

The UK post office declared all old stamps unusable and replaced them with new stamps carrying bar codes. People who follow the recommended procedure for exchanging the valid but unusable old stamps are often told they were "used or fake", or sent too few.

It seems that society has got in the habit of imposing incompetent service and declaring it satisfactory.

Around 25% of invertebrate species are estimated to be at risk of extinction in the mass extinction that humans are bringing about.

This includes important pollinators. The loss of pollinators will cause problems for the growth of food.