Many California towns inhabited by poor Hispanics don't deliver clean water.

In some places the threat of future water shortage is the obstacle to fixing it. The only fix for that is to use a lot less water — which means, less farming and fewer people.

Uber is trying to falsify an impression that drivers really want to have no rights.

*Two-year jail terms signal bid to crush all independent journalism in Belarus.* Journalists were convicted on a *trumped-up charge of organizing a protest they simply filmed.*

"Modernizing" the world's nuclear missiles would only provide us with a fancier way to cause a fast mass extinction. We should cancel it.

A federal court ruled that the CDC's emergency ban on evictions is unconstitutional.

The ban is indeed an emergency measure, not a permanent solution. The US needs to set up a system that will give everyone in the US a place to live that meets our standards.