A Mississippi bill, already approved by the legislature, would allow pharmacists to deny medication to people on religious grounds.

It would authorize discrimination by other businesses, too.

The Australian government is planning to ban environmental organizations from organizing boycotts.

This is a direct assault on freedom of speech for the non-rich.

The Supreme Court struck down a limit on total donations from a person to various political campaigns.

This will increase the US tendency to become a plutocracy, with only forms of democracy.

Our only hope is if people learn to vote for whoever the attack ads attack.

When the state becomes so cruel that a lot of people need to beg for help, it provides an opening for racist "charities" that offer aid only to certain racial groups.

Thus one cruel right-wing policy feeds into the next.

We can't expect the unaided market to curb global heating, because if it were going to, it already would have.

Part of the problem is plutocracy: the fossil fuel companies have lobbied for and gained big subsidies, including support from the World Bank as well as national governments.