Some economists attack Piketty's arguments by ignoring the wealth that the wealthy have hidden from records.

This may be the real purpose of some luxury goods: to hide wealth.

What Thomas Paine wrote in the 1770s is applicable to plutocracy today.

US citizens: urge Congresscritters to sign the letter urging Obama not to send portable antiaircraft missiles to Syrian rebels.

US citizens: Call on the EPA to reject the 2,4-D herbicide that is likely to be very toxic.

There is a project to breed chickens that won't be killed by the future heat waves we are in the process of causing.

To prevent damage from global heating, we would need hundreds of thousands of programs like this. It would be so much easier and cheaper to install renewable energy, and efficiency improvements, and thus curb global heating. But that requires putting an end to plutocratic government.