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.

We should not rush to judgment about Woody Allen.

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".

"The Nunes memo shows Republicans buy their own conspiracy theories."

When algorithms are used to rate people for good or bad treatment, they are often designed in ways that push the bad treatment onto the ones that have the least influence to push it away.

The basis for this is that the US systematically deprives poor people of the possibility of making enough money to cope with the needs of life. Whether the money comes from work or from the state, there isn't enough of it. Inevitably, some people will get squeezed out the bottom.

Precisely who gets squeezed out first depends on lots of details, but those specifics are less important than the general situation that ensures someone will suffer.