The greater sage grouse, an endangered bird, protects 350 other species typically found in the same habitat.

There may be dozens or hundreds other species of microbes, protists, fungi and soil-dwelling invertebrates that live in that habitat but that we have not yet discovered.

AT&T promised (to get a merger approved) to offer DSL service to everyone in its service areas, but refuses to install new equipment to do so.

You can't expect a big company to keep its promises unless it is punished directly when it doesn't. If AT&T were find $100,000 per person per year, for each person entitled to DSL and waiting for it, and the victim got half of that as compensation, AT&T would fix this.

Bratton says, it's not that blacks are forbidden to be hired as thugs, it's that they are so hostile they won't apply.

I suspect it's both.

The US "charter school" (privatized public school) program was designed to exempt charter schools from any real accountability to the state or to local elected officials.

A supposed "accountability" requirement added in 2010 was a pretense without substance.

They are not even accountable for what they do with the US government money.

The TPP is designed to make medicines as expensive in other countries as they are in the US.