Fake news is being used for character assassination against German politicians.

Ingrained poverty is not simply a matter of people's lacking certain resources. To lead a people out of ingrained poverty involves more than simply giving them certain specific things.

The article has some cheap shot arguments which are mistaken. Eliminating public defacation won't make people prosperous but it can reduce transmission of diseases and it can help the stigmatized caste that collects the waste.

School for today's 5-year-olds won't educate today's 25-year-olds, but will educate the 25-year-olds of 20 years from now, and it could be a lot easier to teach 5-year-olds than 25-year-olds. Even if learning to read won't assure children a future job, it will help them think about their world.

However, the overall point about creating prosperity seems valid.

Birth control and reduced birth rate is a crucial part of creating prosperity. A rapidly growing population has not got a chance for prosperity to get ahead of births.

Some fake news is starting to target right-wing authoritarians.

Even if that helps in some narrow sense to fight the troll and his saboteurs, it won't help us make truth great again. But it may give us a chance to do that, by organizing to reject fake news intended to appeal to us.

Ironically, the article encourages people to believe news articles without careful thought by endorsing the foolish concept idea that people "consume" news. You can't be thoughful about judging what you consume, but you can be thoughful about judging what you read or hear.

A bill proposed by SCROTUS would mess up the EPA badly for reasons that are subtle and not obvious. This explains them.

Thug unions hope for Sessions' support in eliminating court-ordered settlements that required thugs to change policies to protect people's lives from the thugs.