The US makes it difficult to take legal action against persistent sexual harassment. The investigation, inside an organization, aims above all to protect the organization. Even when the organization finds the complaint was valid, often the only response is to fire the complainant.

"Centrist" politicians have created the United States of Care to campaign for something short of single-payer medical care. Something that would still leave room for business to gouge Americans that get sick.

A center-right Democratic think tank has its own inferior proposal.

China's President Xi is trying to make himself president-for-life.

Monbiot: arguing against ecomodernism.

Dr Wakefield, whose false research results cast doubt on the safety of vaccines, is still campaigning against vaccination despite the lack of any evidence against them. Now he in Texas trying to benefit from the right-wing tendency to believe fashionable conspiracy theories.

Remember when it was leftist extremists that believed conspiracy theories? The rightists have gone far beyond them in irrationality.