SCROTUS have allowed some Medicare benefits to lapse.

Cape Town has a plan to provide rationed water to all inhabitants if drought compels turning off the piped water supply.

This is a short-term plan; it won't work for decades if the rainy season of the past no longer occurs in the future. People may have to move.

As global heating hits increasing numbers of millions, they will find there is nowhere to move to.

The bully plans to conduct nuclear weapons tests as a show of belligerence.

This is just the sort of thing that the mainstream media love to call "presidential".

Ai Weiwei: to cure the refugee crisis, the west must recognize how its imposed globalization causes disasters that force people to become refugees.

I disagree partially. It was not "the west" that has done this; rather it was the western banksters and plutocrats that control western countries, pretending that their benefit is our benefit too.

The same banksters and plutocrats are spreading poverty in the west, just not as fast. Being part of the lower 50% of Americans today is not as bad as living in a refugee camp, but give the Republicans a few more years and the difference will get smaller. What is a Hooverville, after all, but a refugee camp?

Guillaume Chaslot, who formerly worked on YouTube's secret recommendation algorithm, developed software to empirically study YouTube's patterns of recommendations. What he discovered is that YouTube tended to recommend right-wing videos that supported the troll.

Why that occurred is not clear.