The Welfare State Saved Me. To Need It Isn't A Moral Failure.

Poverty is principally the fault of systems that shoot poverty arrows. Those who are more capable can dodge better, but anyone can get hit. Right-wing policy is to shoot more arrows.

China Warned Over 'Insane' Plans for New Nuclear Power Plants.

Killing the TPP might lead to less corporate-power items in future trade treaties.

Self-driving trucks could push 10 million Americans into unemployment in a few years.

Truck driving is the last form of work that provides a good income to people without college or professional degrees.

Meanwhile, Watch out for self-driving cars; they may be a surveillance system. Any car made by Google, Apple or Uber will tell a company where you go. We must not _allow_ vehicles that track us to become the usual mode of travel.

Uber is already a surveillance system, which is one of many reasons why we should refuse to use it.

See surveillance vs. democracy for more about this point.

Valerie Tarico: Why I Am Pro-Abortion, Not Just Pro-Choice.

I am even more pro-abortion than that. Having a baby is dangerous for the mother, and it contributes tp the population growth that exacerbates many global problems. I encourage women to choose an abortion rather than a baby.