Don't believe Apple's claims to care about users' privacy. In China, it stores all user data on servers controlled by the Chinese government.

Biden offers to give up on central progressive commitments to try to "compromise" with Republicans whose goal is to make him fail.

A British clothing company registered "Yoruba" as a trademark. That is absurd — the name of an ethnic group, or other group of people, should never be anyone's monopoly. Imagine if a company in Africa made "British" its trademark! It would be the same wrong.

However, using the term "cultural appropriation" to describe this wrong is a confusion.

A fitting term for what happened here would be "cultural enclosure": the attempt to seize part of the common.

In 1945, the UK secretly deported hundreds of Chinese seamen who had helped run the UK's merchant marine during World War II. The government did not tell Parliament, nor did it tell the men's British wives and children.

Plastic trash that washes up on tropical beaches makes the beach sand substantially hotter. This causes most sea turtle eggs to come out female. The lack of males endangers the species.

Global heating will eventually have the same effect anyway, but that will take longer and maybe we will stop it.