China uses pandas as instruments of international public relations. Now Germans are turning that around by calling two newborn pandas "Hong" and "Kong".

To maintain its monopoly on pandas, China only leases them, never selling them, and the lease says that all offspring belong to China. But this is no reason for Germans to call the pandas by the names that China says are "official".

One small but significant way to push back on China is by not making any particular fuss about pandas.

US citizens: call on Big Pharma to make insulin affordable, as it used to be.

If you sign, please spread the word!

"Neoliberal economists present themselves as ‘neutral’ technocrats, but they’re actually partisans for the status quo [and for inequality]. Don’t fall for it."

Bolsonaro overtly endorsed the bloody military coup in Chile.

He has kept company with supporters of Brazil's military government, but this is more explicit.

The Republican Party rigs its own primary elections, too, by cancelling them entirely.