Appreciation of human rights is decreasing across the world, as people who experienced World War II are no longer here to lead the defense of them.

Russia spread fake news for a year to prepare public support for its attack on Ukrainian ships.

Repeated heat-induced coral bleaching in the Great Barrier Reef has already caused evolutionary effect: the more vulnerable species and varieties are disappearing.

This does not make the remaining species and varieties any more robust than they already were. That part of evolution takes more time than we are going to let the corals have.

US college fraternities teach a Kavanaugh-style idea of masculinity based on the core values of brotherhood, privilege and machismo. The ideals they claim to stand for have been forgotten.

We would be better off if fraternities were abolished.

The protesters that blocked a deportation flight, and face imprisonment, gave one of the deportees the chance to win an appeal. In other words, his intended deportation would have been a miscarriage of justice.

That narrowly averted miscarriage of justice would not have been an accident, but rather the intended stochastic result of a policy of haste designed to excuse violating people's rights. The charges against these protesters are meant to reinforce that "hostile environment".