*Phoenix passes landmark rule requiring heat protection for outdoor workers.* Enforcing these rights for enslaved outdoor workers will be difficult. Typically they are either blocked or intimidated out of communication with state officials. The lack of these protections threatens their lives.

Salafi Arabia has turned the UN Commission on Status of Women into a mockery by winning the leadership of that commission.

I can only imagine that it used its financial power to corrupt other governments, but I am amazed that no country opposed its selection.

Local climate disasters cause lasting neurological problems -- for children, and for fetuses (supposing that they later become persons).

Antiabortion campaigners publish articles with bad science designed to create an appearance of reasons to restrict abortion medicine. Then other antiabortion campaigners cite those papers in court cases.

The Tories have hit on a clever method of excluding university students from voting in the next UK election. This method is simply to hold the election in October.

The problem follows from the current rules of the electoral system. It needs fixing by changing the rules.

Part of the cause of the problem is the ID requirement that the Tories introduced recently. ID requirements in the US are imposed by right-wing parties for the sake of voter suppression, and the UK is no different.