The People's Response Act would move the US towards responding to drug and mental crises with compassion rather than hatred — with unarmed people who will help rather than kill.

It might be better for the mental health responders to be local organizations rather than federal. But that is a detail — it is better to do this in one way or the other, than not to do it.

A Coronavirus epidemic 25,000 years ago seems to have killed enough people in East Asia to have a big selective effect on certain proteins. Those proteins probably made people more capable of resisting the infection or its symptoms.

I expect Republicans will condemn China for not sharing those genes with other racial groups, while secretly looking for people of Chinese descent to marry. ;-}.

Calling on social media companies to ban ads for fossil fuel companies. This punishment would fit the crime of advertising lies which denied global heating.

In the negotiations for a global treaty on persistent organic pollutants, the US EPA is pushing to omit UV-238 from the list of them.

Striking Alabama coal miners picked investment companies that bought the bankrupt Walter Energy, made promises to the union workers, then broke them.