US citizens: call on your state legislature to implement fair districting.

When billionaires pledge to donate most of their wealth to charity, there is no guarantee that that money will ever reach a charity, The system is complicated and the pledge may be almost meaningless.

Never mind their pledges -- let's tax them a lot more.

*UK super-rich [are] less charitable than decade ago, says charity chief.*

Stop depending on them to give voluntarily, and tax them more!

The EU has proposed a plan to cut plastic waste from consumer goods.

This is good, but what about the fishing nets?

Railroads in England cancel a lot of trains. But the ones they cancel before 10pm the night before are omitted from the statistics, so the statistics don't show how bad this really is.

Privatization makes this worse. Instead of government agency, which would obey orders to report more useful figures, these are "private companies" that have "rights" to state their cancellation rate in a way that minimizes it.

The railroad passengers deserve rights, and the railroad workers deserve rights, but there should be no stockholders or executives involved in running trains that "deserve rights" over how the trains run.

George Takei talks about growing up in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans, and later coming out as gay.