We licked the first attempt to pass Manchin's sabotage of environmental permit requirements. But Biden seems determined to pass it.

Shame on you for this, Biden.

The development of genetically engineered trees is likely to lead to replacing forests with plantations. Tree plantations won't support a variety of wildlife like a forest.

One reason why businesses move jobs to subcontractors is that it helps them get away with treating workers illegally.

This is why I advocate laws to strictly limit the amount of any kind of work that can be done by subcontracting.

In the US, "nonprofit" hospital chains cheat poor patients, demanding they pay even when state law says they don't have to, and sending debt collectors after them.

I suspect that mergers and competition for mergers are part of what turns formerly altruistic organizations greedy. Competition with for-profit companies may be part of it true.

I propose that states pass laws to prohibit mergers of organizations that provide medical care, and to prohibit for-profit companies from doing that. They should never have existed; let's get rid of them.

Alabama prisoners, condemned to work for a pittance, are going on strike. A strike requires even more courage for prisoners than it does for desperate low-wage employees, because the prisoners may face solitary confinement and other privations.