*Four in 10 Americans live in counties with unhealthy air pollution levels.*

Do we know a feasible way to substantially reduce toxic air pollution?

Covid-19 is spreading in India at an alarming rate. Hospitals have run out of beds and are running out of oxygen for ventilators. Even young, healthy adults are dying in large numbers.

This is the result of a right-wing truth-rejecting government that recklessly "reopened the economy". As well as causes that people could not easily have changed.

The Burmese army is arresting medics and doctors, even people who have first-aid supplies on the assumption that they mean to aid civilians that the army shoots.

Iran as much as admits that it is holding dual-citizens hostage for exchanges.

I conclude that it is not safe for citizens of likely target countries to visit Iran. But the chance that any given person will be targeted is small enough that they will convince themselves that "It won't happen to me."

Simon & Schuster rejected demands from staff to cancel publication of Pence's memoir.

I thoroughly oppose Pence's politics, and I would not regret if his book were not published, But I also oppose the efforts of the publisher's staff to bully the company into cancelling books.