*Mahatma Gandhi's killer venerated as Hindu nationalism resurges in India.*

"Hindu nationalism" despises non-Hindus (especially Muslims, but Christians too, and maybe Buddhists) and seeks to oppress them within India or expel them. That's why Modi's supporters adopted two citizenship laws which, together, make an excuse to deny the citizenship of non-Hindus and expel them.

Paradoxically they also want India to control areas inhabited mainly by Muslims, such as Kashmir, whether they want to be part of India or not. (India promised Kashmiris a referendum about independence, but never carried it out.)

Those who condemn Gandhi for supporting partition between India and Pakistan apparently wish that Pakistan and Bangladesh were part of India today, so that they could oppress or expel Muslims there too.

This looks like the return of the sort of territorial expansionism that mostly disappeared after World War II, together with religious hatred.

There is a debate between those who argue that carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a necessary system for reducing emissions and those who argue that it is ineffective and an expensive distraction.

I readily agree that CCS is an acceptable method in principle. If you can make it work, please go ahead. But when it comes to public investment, it has to compete with the other methods for reducing emissions. If we spend X on reducing emissions, which way of spending it would achieve the biggest reduction?

The article mentions that debate, and gives me the impression that the opponents of CCS are right, at least while while other cheaper methods are waiting to be used.

Or maybe we should treble our spending on emissions reduction and try all the methods at once.

An interesting abstract economic understanding of the politics of the US these days.

However, as for continuing that 50-year cycle, there are many things which are getting worse and will keep getting worse for more than 50 years, due to underlying physical and biological factors: global heating, resource exhaustion, and pollution of various kinds.

Alexei Navalny returned to Russia, where he was immediately arrested and faces years in prison for absurdly unfair charges.

*Poison squad stalked Alexei Navalny on 40 flights, says Bellingcat investigator.*

US citizens: call on Congress to expel the members of Congress that deny there was a coup attempt.