*Teaching philosophy in a [minors'] prison has shown me the meaning of anger.*

It's a side issue, but please don't refer to 15-year-olds as "children". They are teenagers — adolescents.

American society is evolving towards more loneliness and less connection of every kind. Today's use of the internet seems to be accelerating this change.

My personal impression is that the spaces of possible friendship and possible love have been somehow poisoned, so that what you can find in them isn't quite friendship or love any more.

*Teaching philosophy in a [minors'] prison has shown me the meaning of anger.* It's a side issue, but please don't refer to 15-year-olds as "children". They are teenagers — adolescents.

The Tories plan laws to prohibit strikes in the usual sense of the word, for a wide range of industrial activities considered "essential" and whose workers are therefore unable to get by.

Forbidding women from working for NGOs has made humanitarian aid in Afghanistan impossible — those tens of thousands of workers were essential for them to operate.