A heatwave in the ocean off the US west coast threatens a giant toxic algal bloom.

The spawning of coral in the Red Sea is disrupted. If the coral animals of a species do not try to mate at the same time, they will not reproduce.

Study: The Only Place On Earth More Surveilled Than London Is … China.

(To what extent China is Communist is a difficult question, and not relevant anyway. What matters is that China is repressive.)

One neighborhood in Kashmir has forced out the Indian repression forces, using barricades and throwing stones.

The Indian forces attack with tear gas, sometimes fired at people not involved in fighting.

Boeing, the result of merger of all US companies that made large jetliners, has become primarily a political machine and only secondarily a builder of machines. "A company once run by engineers is now in the thrall of financiers and its stock remains high even as its planes fall from the sky."

The benefit of a free market comes from competition. When Reagan gutted the laws meant to maintain lots of competition, this benefit started to evaporate, not just in making jetliners but all across the economy.