*Heatwaves have become longer in most of the world since 1950s.*

The change in the next 20 years could exceed the past 60 years.

One supporter is persistently deleting everything from Kamala Harris's Wikipedia page showing her hash approach towards small-time street crime as well as her lax approach towards the theft of billions.

Progressives are trying to reclaim the term "populist", which around 1900 referred to a campaign to strengthen democracy and reduce economic inequality.

Australia's extractivist government is not interested in endangered species, so it has stopped bothering to update records of where they live.

The UK will require people eating in restaurants to identify themselves.

New Zealand's previous system, recording info about customers on paper, respected anonymity. It made the information available to collect when contact tracing needed it, but avoided creating a tracking database that the state could use for unjust purposes.

I am alarmed to read that New Zealand now requires customers to scan a QR code — with a Stalin's Dream device, evidently. That is not safe. And what about the people who don't have a portable phone?