US citizens: call on Biden to nominate a climate leader as Chair of the Federal Reserve.

Everyone: call for dissolving the National Rifle Association. For decades it has linked itself to white supremacism. Nowadays it is simply a marketing agency for guns.

*The west has to ask itself: if IS is the enemy, does that make the Taliban our friends?*

We must hope so. It would snatch a peaceful success (better than mere "victory") out of the jaws of defeat, and provide a chance for thoughtful diplomacy to advance women's rights a little.

Proposing a way to take some of the private profit motive out of US war and military spending.

*"Use your £11bn climate fund to pay for family planning," UK told.*

As a way to reduce future environmental damage, and curb greenhouse emissions, this is tremendously efficient.