Polls show that Biden's popularity has decreased, but the progressive parts of his agenda remain popular.

May countries have restricted entry from southern Africa where the Omicron variant is believed to be spreading. The other African countries need to restrict travel, too.

That is, if it isn't too late already.

A credit card called "Aspiration" markets itself as a way to protect the climate, but its claims are full of cloud.

The world might have avoided the emergence of the new Covid-19 variant, that seems to be more infectious than Delta, by removing the artificial obstacles to faster manufacture of vaccines.

There are threats of legal action against several countries which are blocking this: Canada, the U.K., Norway, and Germany.

The term "intellectual property" is a bogus concept which conflates several disparate kinds of imposed monopoly, of which patent law is just one. These laws are so different from each other that a statement which generalizes about all of them, as that term leads people to do, always spreads confusion.

Please join me in absolutely refusing to use the term.

Affirmative action for university admissions could be thought of as partially counteracting the system that preferentially admits certain privilaged students -- mostly white.

The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I object to bigotry, and normally I decline to link to articles which promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles which give important information about racism or the fight to eliminate racism. That article is one of the exceptions.