*Recessions blight young people’s prospects for decades. We need New Deal-type policies now to help them.*

Republicans won't allow this.

Biden says that he will consider being more progressive than he was advocating previously.

For this to win my vote, he must endorse specific progressive policies, not merely say he is thinking about doing so.

A vaccine for Covid-19, even if it works, may not be effective enough to eradicate the disease.

San Francisco continues its war on homeless, especially its uniformed thugs, but some people are being allowed for the time being to live in tents on the street.

President Hernández of Honduras is suspected of being a major drug trafficker. His former chief of the national police faces US drug trafficking charges.

Hernández got into power in the dubious election held after the US-supported coup. His brother was convicted already of drug trafficking.

Prohibition of recreational drugs is futile and stupid, but that doesn't make trafficking good. For addictive drugs, the state should provide them to addicts in a safe way, so as to pull the plug on the black market.