New York City is building a 10-mile-long seawall/recreation-area to prevent flooding for a few decades.

If we don't stop pumping CO₂ into the air, no seawall will protect New York City.

Stiglitz: The euro-zone austerity has caused tremendous harm, all of which could have been avoided.

If you judge these budget cuts in terms of the supposed goals of nations' policies, they are failure. But they are very effective as an intentional shock (as Naomi Klein puts it) to transfer wealth to the plutocrats.

US thugs and prosecutors are distributing software to "protect children", which is really spyware.

Americans are so insanely obsessed with overprotecting children that you can get them to swallow almost any form of abuse in the name of doing that.

Corruption has been discovered at the center of the UK's cabinet, in someone who is not a minister.

The ministers are overtly corrupt.

In Sudan, women get flogged for not covering their hair. Jailing is common, for women who aren't totally submissive.