Syrian Kurds have handed the town of Manbij to Assad's forces, hoping that will thwart Erdoğan's plan to attack Manbij.

If Assad is willing to make peace with Rojava, that could give Rojava a way to survive. However, there is no way for Rojava to respect human rights under Assad's dominion, as long as he will not do so.

There is bipartisan support for relaxing zoning regulations, but not at the local level where it can actually be done.

The adoption of e-cigarettes has greatly increased the fraction of teenagers that use nicotine.

How bad is that? The change since 20 years ago is that today many of them are using e-cigarettes, whereas their counterparts 20 years ago were smoking.

The UK Department of Health finds that vaping nicotine does only 5% as much harm as smoking tobacco.

So it seems to me that the change reported in Mother Jones is a big change for the not-so-bad.

Lots of plastic that Americans hand over for recycling does not really get recycled. The system is not able to cope with the needs of the real waste stream.

Perhaps we need to tax the use of plastic packaging that doesn't match up with real recycling capabilities.

A leaked document shows that the bully and his henchmen intentionally planned to deport refugee minors quickly, denying them their right to a hearing, after taking them away from their parents.

They lied about this, naturally, since they belong to the Republiar Party. Senator Merkley called for the FBI to investigate the Secretary of Homeland Savagery, Kirstjen Nielsen, who patently lied to Congress about this.