As the Taliban slowly advance in Afghanistan, the US is covering this up by not publishing status information.

Legalization of marijuana has done a lot of good and no real harm, but it is incomplete. Homeless people and people in federally-subsidized housing have nowhere they can lawfully use marijuana. And lots of minority group people are still arrested for the remaining crimes such as using marijuana in public.

The article uses the absurd word "latinx." Please don't write that unless you are prepared to say it out loud. Using the convention I proposed for gender-neutrality in Spanish, the word would be "latinis", but that proposal has not been adopted.

Israel is setting up tourist attractions in occupied territory to make annexation appear legitimate.

This reminds me of when I visited Tibet unknowingly -- my Chinese hosts told me "Tibetans have lived here for hundreds of years" but didn't say that's because China had annexed part of Tibet.

Scotland is considering making emotional domestic abuse a crime.

In principle I agree, but it may be very difficult to prove such crimes based on objective evidence judged by objective standards.

We don't have to allow streets and air to be clogged with multiple delivery vans. We do not have to let rapid delivery be society's priority.