Stone Mountain Park romanticizes the Confederacy, but when the giant statue was built, in the 1960s, it embodied the spirit of segregationism. This article proposes ways to make it ineffective.

China's draconian law has crushed the organized protests of Hong Kong.

We must not forget Hong Kong's years of resistance, just as we must not forget China's massacre of students supporting democracy in Tian An Men Square.

*The Toxic Rise of Toxic Positivity.*

As much of my life has been unhappy — for reasons that were pretty obvious to me — I have been visited many times with demands that I be helped by the help they offer, and become cheerful. Or at least pretend to be.

With Covid-19 building up in most countries, will the wealthier parts of the world cooperate with treatment in the rest of the world?

Americans are losing their homes due to exorbitant water bills that they cannot pay.