McGraw Hill, a textbook publisher, is being asked to capitalize the word "black".

I have no opinion about whether to capitalize "black" and "white" as long as we treat the two words alike.

Is it possible to design an enforceable treaty against space weapons?

I think it is possible, if the countries involved agree to certain kinds of design features to prohibit, then allow superficial inspection of each others' satellites before launch to verify they do not have the prohibited design features.

*US push for global alliance against China hampered by years of 'America first'.*

Pompeo is correct when he says that ‘The free world must triumph over this new [Chinese] tyranny.’ Unfortunately, it is correct to say almost the same thing about the US. The world must triumph over Xi and Trump, but how? No national leader today stands for this cause.

*Why [a considerable fraction of] a generation is choosing to be child-free.*

If technological society survives global heating disaster, our descendants 150 years from now (perhaps one or two billion of them) will decide how many children to make each year, then recruit parents to raise them. They will attract plenty of volunteers for that role by making other aspects of life easy and safe for them. This way they can maintain a stable population and assure everyone grows up loved.

Refugee Behrouz Boochani, formerly imprisoned by Papua New Guinea on Australia's behalf, is now free and a resident of New Zealand.