Prime Minister Ardern has moved the Labour Party of New Zealand to the right. She has done a good job of dealing with crises, but she is denying the party's purpose by not pushing to help the poor.

It's not as bad there as in the US. At least New Zealand has a national medical system.

Covid-19 tests the solidarity and organization of a society.

Those that have organized well to protect the health of all have done well. Those like the US and UK, where those who dominate do not care about the rest, have suffered terrible infestations.

DNA barcoding has revealed that what we thought was one species can be ten or more visually indistinguishable species. This means a lot more species that we're in the process of driving to extinction.

Will the US prosecute the conman when Biden becomes president?

I agree that failure to do so will confirm that presidents are above the law, and encourage a rerun.

However, in an era when Republicans will let a Republican president get away with any sort of corruption and undermining, being able to prosecute per afterward if there is an afterward is not enough protection for democracy.

Since 1990, US companies have found it easy to crush unions, so it is useful to teach Americans about the decades of struggle that led the labor movement to victory under the New Deal.