Actually, it's 5pm here. And I have a few stories queued up:
- Oklahoma has a new law making abortion a felony, because the 1950s were great for the white Christian men who wrote that law.
- Monika Bauerlein explains why authoritarians hate a free press. Not that we didn't already know.
- Jonathan Haidt explains "why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely stupid." ("It's not just a phase.")
- Inflation in the US hit a 40-year high at 8.5% year over year, but Paul Krugman believes it will drop considerably in the next few months. Not that the result will be particularly good, mind.
- With Allstate's Northbrook campus about to become an Amazon facility (and it really being in unincorporated Cook County), the villages of Prospect Heights and Glenview are gearing up for a fight over who gets to annex it.
Finally, author John Scalzi puts Rogue One in third place on his ranked list of Star Wars films, with some good reasons.