Rebecca Solnit: *America witnessed a coup attempt. Now it’s sleep-walking into another disaster.*

The Republican Party has become all coup, all the time.

A report about mergers of giant US media companies and how they have affected the public.

*Group of women asks US supreme court to overturn topless sunbathing ban.*

Whatever your sex, sunbathing is bad for your skin -- you can even get skin cancer. It's wiser to be nude in the shade.

Malta is the first European country to legalize possessing marijuana for personal use.

Governor Newsom plans to turn the Republicans' everybody-sue-'em approach to gun control.

The everybody-sue-'em approach is inherently dangerous, regardless of what it is used for. It should not be used to regulate abortions, or guns, or anything else. No constitutional rights are safe if that everybody-sue-'em approach is permitted.

Anyone worthy to sit on the Supreme Court would have realized that this approach must be rejected regardless of what the issue is. We have to hope that seeing it used against a favorite right-wing recruiting stand will convince the extremists on the court to change their minds about that approach.

But I expect they will instead fabricate inconsistent excuses to permit the approach when used for right-wing purposes and reject it when used for progressive purposes.