Putin's propaganda, together with cutting off Russians from outside news and thought, is successfully convincing them to identify with the war.

I read elsewhere that the families whose youths were conscripted and then died in the war have mostly convinced themselves that this had to be somehow laudable, because they can't bear to think the thought that it was pointless destruction.

This is good news for fascist rulers around the world, and bad news for human freedom.

The vagueness of DeMentis's censorship of course discussions of racism is causing disputes about showing students anything about the subject.

Given any presentation about racism, people can contrive a way to conceive of it as teaching something bad. For instance, Ruby Bridges is about a black child who needed guards to protect her from racists in her school, back in the 1960s. That is meant to teach students the same age today what racism was like; but how can you prove it isn't teaching that all whites are evil?

The Supreme Court refused to hear Stephen Donziger's appeal of the highly irregular procedure by which Chevron procured his conviction.

Surprisingly, the only two justices who wanted to hear the case were Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. All the others were willing to let Chevron get away with railroading Donziger.

Which approaches for limiting Covid-19 did work, at the beginning, and which did not?

Workers at 100 Starbucks stores walked out ahead of the company's annual meeting.