Biden has proposed a collection of measures intended to help people who rent their homes and have trouble affording the expense.

I am not able to evaluate it, but I suspect (as do others) that it is not enough to solve the problem. I think we need to build a lot more housing, dense enough to make mass transit efficient. That will take years, so it is better if we get started now and push it hard.

Reportedly some big corporations that have bought up millions of rental units are content with the proposal -- which suggests it is insufficient.

All the Memphis thugs involved in killing Tyre Nichols have been charged with second-degree murder.

The UK's conditional tax on overly sweetened drinks brings about a significant (though not revolutionary) reduction of obesity in girls.

Hun Sen, "president" of Cambodia, regularly puts Cambodians on trial for posting words that insult him.

Cambodia isn't the only country that fails to recognize that freedom of speech includes the freedom to insult people -- even to insult the highest officials. France has prosecuted people for insulting President Sarkozy -- for instance, one defendant had said "Sarkozy, I see you" when the topic was an injustice. Some of these defendants were acquitted for various reasons, but the fact that the prosecution were not dismissed outright in the name of freedom of speech shows that respect for freedom of speech is lacking there.

I used to refer to Sarkozy as "Sarcômë", which means "cancer". Fortunately for me, I was never prosecuted.

US pharmaceutical companies have spent more on stock buybacks and dividends than drug research and development over the past decade.