Modi said India would eliminate all single-use plastic by 2022.

That must be the eventual target, but it might be important to allow some specific temporary exceptions until better substitutes are developed. Paper bags already exist for carrying purchases, and paper straws were standard order when I was a child, but some specific uses in food packaging might not have replacements yet.

Google could manipulate elections simply by jiggering with search ranking. Experiments show that this can influence how people vote.

It would be very difficult to make regulations against this that a search engine company could not evade. The computation of search ranking is complex, for good reasons including stopping sites from gaming the system; this creates many places to hide the manipulation and many ways to disguise it.

I am not sure what the solution could be.

When I want to check some facts, the first place I look is Wikipedia. To do a search for articles, then read them, takes a long time, so I rarely go that way.

It is a shame that the writer endorses the prejudices embodied by using the word "consume" to refer to reading articles.

Brian Jones is now middle-aged, but since he is black, he still fears being falsely accused of various crimes because of his race.

The job of American thugs is upholding law and order; when bigotry is included in that "order", the result is to multiply the bigotry of any bigot that calls 911.

Other Americans describe the everyday bigotry they encounter in the US.

Bangladesh's thug department death squad killed politician Akramul Haque, then said it was in a shoot-out. His wife recorded a phone with him as he died, proving that the thugs were lying.

EU citizens: write to and phone your MEPs to oppose the copyright censorship directive.

The Parliament should kill this directive entirely, rather than try to modify it. The rules of the EU will allow the other EU organs (which have already approved this tyrannical measure) to override the Parliament's decisions, and it is very hard for Parliament to block that afterward.