Tax havens that enable people and companies to dodge taxes, whether legally or not, do great harm.

In Africa, the high rate of offshoring wealth impoverishes everyone.

The claim that corporations' duty to shareholders takes priority over all other responsibilities was imposed by a systematic effort starting in the 1970s. We have no obligation to grant it any legitimacy.

One secondary danger of the systematic tracking of mobile phones is that crackers could steal the data and use them for criminal purposes.

However, the worst danger from the data is that the state can get them easily. Many countries are using panic inspired by rare acts of terrorism as an excuse to eliminate all protections.

Rather than offer users an opportunity to "opt out", the data should not be collected at all except when the state gets a specific warrant to track a specific phone.

For Older Americans, Divide between Rich And Poor Gets Bigger.

Habitat for Humanity proposed to use Federal funds to improve housing in Bedford-Stuyvesant for poor people. But gentrifiers took over the housing.

What our expensive cities need now is not upgrades to housing. They need more places where poor people can afford to live — and that calls for driving prices and rents down.

The real crisis in US education consists of setting up to blame public schools for social conditions, as an excuse to privatize them, so businesses can wolf down public funds and cheat the students and the teachers.

The article uses the word "monetize" to mean "profit from". I shun that usage and recommend that you shun it too.