200 students on a school trip were invited to give Paul Ryan a photo op. Half of them refused to participate.

Bravo! They are learning what America means.

Some US Christians cheer Gianforte's violence and call for a "more violent Christianity".

Other religious fanatics call for a more violent Islam, and look at how much harm they have done. These could do even more.

Republicans are in favor of policies that redistribute wealth, as long as it's redistributed to the rich. But they disguise this redistributive effect behind some other motive, so that they can pretend to "oppose redistribution".

The article sets a bad example in one point: it uses the propaganda word "protection" in reference to copyright, and to patents. A deeper error in that same point is that it groups copyright and patents together as if they were similar issues.

The US military continues to cover up civilian casualties from bombing raids.

It's impossible to fight a war and perfectly avoid civilian casualties. It is possible to make a real effort to avoid them — and it is possible to admit them when they happen.

With global heating plus increased urbanization, many cities could be 8C hotter by the end of this century.