A Republican who pushed to override the 2020 election results now proposes a strategy to rig the 2024 election: make it harder for college students to vote.

Republicans are already trying hard to do this, and facing a lot of resistance. What the presentation shows is that Republican activists feel no shame whatsoever about systematic cheating.

Costa Rica sets an example of successfully reversing deforestation. Since around 1990, most of the lost forests have grown back.

The basic idea was to pay the owner of a formerly forested area just a little more than the pittance that could be made from inefficient raising of cattle, for letting forest grow there. I wonder if this method can be adapted to the Brazilian Amazon. The situation is not the same.

The Supreme Court decision to tentatively allow sales of mifepristone to continue seems to have split the most extreme right wing from the rest.

It is a very sad thing for the US that the Supreme Court has been politicized so far, but there is no use denying it.

The numbers of tourists now going to the main destinations are not only making them unpleasant places to be, but also converting them into theme parks.

"Americans, unite to support the anonymous billionaires!"

In the US, the "Centrists" are the plutocratists — the ones who avoid most political issues and mainly insist on keeping life profitable for the rich. What's new is that billionaires plan to pool their money secretly to get their politicians elected without bothering with support either major political parties.