Teaching children to cower in fear of extremely unlikely dangers does them lasting harm.

Australia, New Zealand and Canada have called for a cease fire in Gaza.

The US should join in.

Kate Cox left Texas to get an abortion. *The Texas supreme court ruled that she cannot terminate her non-viable pregnancy there, despite risks to her life and future fertility.*

*Kate Cox begged Texas to let her end a dangerous pregnancy. She won’t be the last.* For antiabortion fanatics, making their dogma prevail justifies causing any actual suffering to actual human beings.

The supreme court's ruling eliminated the immediate issue of whether the attorney general could prosecute doctors for obeying the lower court's order. But the dangerous effect will linger even though this case does not.

*Middle-class fear of green policies fuels rise of far right, Colombia’s Petro warns.*

*UN organizers allow[ed] [160] groups that have obstructed fossil fuel regulations and other climate action to attend [COP28], watchdog finds.*