To avoid global heating disaster we need to reduce the amount of stuff people buy. With today's wasteful, ad-driven system, there is plenty of room to do this without causing any actual hardship.

It is standard practice in Argentina to deny abortion to girls who have been raped, by delaying for months until an ordinary abortion is no longer possible.

The party of Nelson Mandela has become known as the party of corruption.

All South Africa's presidents since Mandela came from that party, and each of them (perhaps aside from Ramaphosa) was a disaster.

The US is almost the global champion in the fraction of people that deny the fact of global heating caused by humans.

Russia and Turkey are bombarding Idlib, and have destroyed 12 medical clinics.