When you meet someone with cancer, don't urge a quack remedy. It's at best condescending, at worst victim-blaming. I have never had cancer, but I've faced similar annoyances over much lesser problems: for instance, people who insist on trying to be helpful by telling me background information I already know. They are not helping me at all, only creating an excuse to feel they are being helpful. If you can't help someone, there's no good in pretending you can.

The UK government plans to turn all public schools into "academies", which means eliminating local control and for the most part privatizing them. Teachers say that they expect less pay for more work under more pressure, so many of them plan to quit. A strike is in the works.

In the US nowadays, being poor means 13 or 14 years less life expectancy.

The primaries in North Carolina and Arizona show that Republican voter suppression methods are effective enough to steal an election.

It's only barely the start of Spring, but there's already a record-breaking wildfire in Kansas.