For the US, global heating is a big threat to national security. What does that make the planet-roasters? And the wrecker?

Of course, global heating is a threat to the national security of many other countries. Some are sure to be destroyed entirely by it.

*America has millions of people in poverty because Americans choose not to demand the policies that would lift them out of poverty.*

The ACLU and other organizations called on Congress not to extend surveillance powers by slipping that into a rider in a continuing resolution or other "must-pass" uncontroversial bill.

(satire) *… NYPD police officer Tom Sloane reportedly shut off his body camera early Monday morning out of respect for his dying victim.* *The NYPD added that it seemed exploitative to publicize the man’s death because that would be what people remembered about him, so the department was refraining from releasing any details about the incident to respect his privacy.*

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences' commits to working to undo the effects of its past participation in racism.

The academy's present leaders are not guilty for actions that happened before they were born, but the responsibility to undo the continuing effects of those actions falls to them nonetheless.

This is the same reasoning which led me to conclude, in 2014, that the United States, acting for today's Americans, should pay compensation to the descendants of those who were denied equal legal rights under the systems of slavery and segregation.