The UK NHS is hiring nurses who don't have nursing qualifications. This, along with the lack of nurses, results from many years of gradually reducing the NHS's funds, together with the refusal to spend enough on training nurses and the refusal to employ immigrants.

US citizens: call on the Secretary of Defense to have Michael Flynn tried for advocating a coup.

The House of Representatives once had rules that allowed something comparable to a filibuster. Segregationist Democrats tried to be counted as absent one moment and present the next. In 1890, the House stopped permitting them to be counted as absent while actually physically present.

Criticizing the fashion for making documentaries as stories, and prioritizing empathy (for individuals) over understanding (of a phenomenon that affects individuals).

Something like this has happened in textual journalism. I sometimes stop reading an article because the "human story, feel for this human who was hurt" part is too big and heavy compared to the part that explains what's going on (events that may hurt lots of people).

Nevada will prohibit useless lawns in the Las Vegas area, because the grass wastes scarce water.