Undercover thugs in US high schools pressure vulnerable students to buy drugs to sell to them, in order to prosecute them.

Undercover infiltration is legitimate as a way to catch people who regularly commit crimes of their own volition. Selling marijuana to minors should perhaps be a crime even when it is legalized in general, but teenagers who do this occasionally when pressured by other teenagers are the wrong targets.

Juvenile punishment could perhaps be useful for teaching them to change course in life, if they had a second chance. However, expelling these students from school is a punishment for life, denying them that second chance.

A new last-ditch campaign to prevent action against global heating pretends to be "prudent" and "rational".

What plutocratists want.

The article says "Republicans", and Republican officials indeed generally support this goal, but some Democrats support it more or less too.

A medical advance will enable pregnant women to determine safely and reliably whether their fetuses would have certain common and devastating genetic defects. Anti-abortion forces will try to prevent the use of these tests.

They are already trying to legalize malpractice and medical dishonesty. They will stop at nothing to oppress women, and don't care what else they crush in the process.

Tim Cook dismissed with a sneer the pressure from global heating denialists.

The article should not confuse denialists with "skeptics".

Cook's resolve to protect the environmental is admirable. If Apple's computers (including the software in them) treated their users ethically, the company would be admirable.