*Some on the left have lost sight of the fact that censorship only ever aids the powerful.*

The cancellationists think they are now so powerful that they can demonize and censor disagreement with them.

*China's first climate striker warned: give it up or you can't go to back to school.*

It is a rather mild punishment by Chinese standards, but insane nonetheless.

In London, a thug put his knee on a person's neck for a moment and that was enough to get him suspended.

For all their faults in some areas, it seems that UK thug departments are serious about keeping the random violence of thugs in check with strict rules. Perhaps the UK does not enable thugs' unions to interfere with protecting the public, as they do in the US.

The report that Russia paid the Taliban bounties to kill Americans is suspect; it may be bogus. The Taliban were fighting the forces in Afghanistan and did not require a special inducement to do that.

If the claim happens to be accurate, we should not exaggerate its significance. In the 1980s, the US did far more than pay Afghans bounties to kill Russians. It recruited them, trained them, and armed them, all under the rubric of "al-Qa'ida". In comparison to that, merely paying bounties would be a tiny matter.

Anyway, bounties are not a reason to keep the war going on and on. The US should pull out its forces and let the Taliban win. Their religious tyranny would deny important human rights, but that's not as bad as war forever.

Samsung yielded to public pressure and said it would give no more financial support to Adani coal mining.

Rejecting coal is a start, but other fossil fuel projects are deadly too.