Too much competitive pressure on students in school can break them.

The root of this problem is that only a small fraction of students can win a decent life.

Sanding Down the Rough Edges of Capitalism Is Not Enough.

It is foolish to demand that the non-poor live as if they were poor. What we need from them is to support anti-plutocratic and anti-trickle-down policies that will give everyone a decent life.

I admire people who have a comfortable income and support politics to give poor people a comfortable income too. Rather than voting for their own narrow interests, they are voting for what is right.

Rising production of beef is a major factor in the current mass extinction. Perhaps even more than global heating.

However, the two are related, since cattle emit methane, and cutting down forests to grow food for cattle releases the CO2 in the forest vegetation.

A Ugandan court has ruled men can't demand return of the bride price when a woman wants a divorce.

I don't like the way the arguments given by the judge still treat a woman as property.