Paul Larner

What nationality was Copernicus?

Luxembourg has become the first country in the world to make all standard public transport completely free, covering buses, trams, and trains nationwide. Funded through taxes instead of fares, the policy aims to ease heavy traffic and cut emissions by encouraging people to leave their cars behind. By removing ticket costs and barriers, public transport is treated more like an essential public service, simple, accessible, and open to everyone, including visitors and cross-border commuters. The results have been noticeable: more people are using public transport, roads are less congested, and urban air quality has improved. While premium first-class rail still requires payment, everyday travel is now seamless, just get on and go. This bold approach has positioned Luxembourg as a global example of how making transport free can help shift habits toward greener, more sustainable travel.

There’s no other way to put this: With the help of right-wing media, Karoline Leavitt is lying about the indictment and running interference for white supremacist groups to try to retroactively exonerate Trump of his “very fine people” scandal. Here’s the entirety of the indictment’s claims about the SPLC and Charlottesville: One informant, making roughly $33,750 a year for eight years, wrote racist posts to maintain his cover and helped organize transportation for the rally. That’s it. There’s no allegation that this informant played any other role in drawing hundreds of white supremacists to Charlottesville to shout hateful slogans, intimidate, assault and murder people. In return, the informant spent nearly a decade sharing info about his racist peers with the SPLC, which was known to work together with the FBI to monitor and prosecute these extremists until Kash Patel chose to end that work in October.