The Democratic Party in Congress has a secret committee in charge of committee assignments. Its rules and its membership are secret. All we know about its operations is that it seems very responsive to interests with lots of money.

Over 20% of women in the UK military report (in a survey) receiving sexual harassment, and a like number report receiving emotional bullying.

*Banning anonymous social media accounts would only stifle free speech and democracy.*

I post a reference to that article because it is well-argued, but I don't agree with it 100%. I think that banning the posting of "disturbing" language goes too far. Also, it repeatedly refers to an unspecified hypothetical individual as "them", and I find that quite annoying.

Rare heavy rains in California caused caused floods and mudslides, but may not leave enough in the soil to end the deep drought.

Anthropic emissions have raised Earth's CO2 concentration to a level not seen for the past 3 million years.