Unarmed protesters who wouldn't stop protesting convinced the Putin forces to pull out of the town of Slavutych.

Putin's war is building up around him a coterie of repressive and unjust regimes — a real life Axis of Evil.

Its not quite a coherent alliance. India and China, which are permanently at the edge of war with each other, are both part of it.

New York's new mayor is a night mayor for the homeless. He ordered the thug department to break up all homeless people's encampments within two weeks.

It's that living in an improvised house of cardboard on the street is an inhumane situation. But this reasoning from that starting point is screwy. Is it more humane to make someone live on the street without even a cardboard house? Yes, there are dangers to living in subway tunnels -- but are they more dangerous than living on the street? Thieves and killers can go in the tunnels, but they can go on the street too.

If you want to see whether your effort to help the homeless is doing any good, one way is to see whether homeless people move there from the street voluntarily. If you want to make success more likely, you could give homeless people more say. If you want them to stay somewhere that isn't a street, you could make some other space available that they can get to.

Reportedly US Democrats have got political advice to declare that Covid-19 is no longer a problem so that Americans will relax, give them credit for a nonexistent victory, and spread Covid-19.

This is almost as callous as what the Republicans have done for two years, intentionally spreading Covid-19.

Increasing humidity in the Atacama desert is causing the 7000-year-old Chinchorro mummies to rot.