Feeling bleak? Well, 2021 wasn’t all bad — here are a few astounding things ordinary people won at home and abroad.

Feeling bleak? Well, 2021 wasn’t all bad — here are a few astounding things ordinary people won at home and abroad.
Thierry Baudet, the Dutch right-wing populist, has launched a new persona as an anti-vaxxer.
The longer it takes the world to get vaccinated, the more variants we’ll see.
At some point, governments will start using more sticks than carrots to break our deadly dependence on fossil fuels. How will humanity respond?
A planned, U.S.-backed mass protest in Cuba flopped. Ordinary Cubans explain why.
After half a century studying the issue, here’s lesson number one: Wars are bad and empire is folly.
Despite a per-capita GDP of one-tenth of the EU’s, Cambodia has achieved a similar rate of vaccination — and a death rate 20 times lower.
For just a fraction of what we’ve spent on militarization these last 20 years, we could start to make life much better.
Why is the far right jumping on the anti-vaccination bandwagon?
Child molestation is a very real problem. But the far right is far more interested in demonizing women, homosexuals, and the transgender community.