What it's like to grow up poor and white in rural America.

I'd be interested in seeing how this compares to growing up poor and black in those places. Racism surely continues its dirty work.

The Putin forces are making advances in their capability to jam communication with Ukraine's most common kind of drone. In a few months they may be entirely useless.

In an arid land city, a rich person can use almost ten times as much water as a poor person. Cities head towards a water shortage should strictly limit water consumption by the rich years before what they would call a "crisis".

Private wells also deplete the same ground water that makes up the last resort for the region. They should be strictly regulated.

By contrast, building private desalinization plants run by renewable energy should be encouraged, because they increase the total water resources available to the region and don't take it away from anyone else.

Suing the EPA for approving a plastic-recycling plant that would cause a 1-in-4 risk of cancer for people who live nearby.

The risk of cancer will inevitably extend, though with decreasing probability, to people who live somewhat farther away. I wonder at what distance that risk will decrease to an acceptable amount. 100 miles? 1000 miles east?

The report is vague, and represents estimates. I can't be sure from this report how much danger there would really be. Perhaps Chevron can demonstrate that the actual danger is far less. But we should insist that it do so by publishing measurements and analyses.

England has an infestation of grey squirrels, and they do lots of damage. It is important to kill them.