North Korea is upgrading its nuclear reactor.

This is not treacherous. It reflects the fact that North Korea has not made an agreement for nuclear disarmament.

I think that peace between North and South Korea would make the nuclear issue much less important.

Poland may be repealing criminal penalties for using expressions such as "Polish death camps", but still thinks it has the power to impose fines on publications in other countries.

The expression "Polish death camps" makes a false statement about history. The death camps in which millions of Jews were murdered were not run by Poland or by Poles. They were set up and run by German Nazis.

Patriotic Poles in occupied Poland would never have aided the Germans in killing Jews. They did it all on their own.

Regardless of those facts, it is dangerous for any country, whether Poland or China or another, to have the power to impose global censorship. Other countries should make sure their courts will not enforce fines imposed by foreign courts for violating censorship.

Progressive Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated right-wing Democrat Joe Crowley in the primary.

Crowley is one of those so-called "centrists" that support the power of business over the state. If we are to restore democracy, we have to replace them as well as replacing Republicans.

Public-employee unions in the US can no longer collect fees from all the workers they serve.

Republicans have worked for decades to kill off those unions and cut public employees' pay. Now it looks like they will succeed.

Our legal system fails to properly punish thugs even for the nastiest illegalities.