US citizens: call on Congress to extend and improve SNAP in the 2023 Farm Bill.

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To save the spotted owl requires killing other owl species that compete with it.

I don't feel sentimental about this. Since there is no automatic "balance of nature" that maintains itself, keeping things in balance and protecting species requires intervention. Therefore let us intervene — to protect all the existing species from extinction,

The historical background of Nagorno-Karabakh, and the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Pakistan says it will deport an estimated 1.7m Afghans who don't have official permission to be in Pakistan.

The announcement says that the 1.4m Afghans with official permission to live in Pakistan can stay. However, the Taliban oppress all women and all girls, and a large set of men (those who had relationships with the former government agencies or any western institutions).

Do all of the Afghans in those categories living in Pakistan have official refugee papers? I would expect Pakistan's criteria for granting asylum are narrower than that, perhaps much narrower.

The IMF's managing director warns central banks to stop trying to "beat inflation" with high interest rates.