Robert Reich: *America used to regulate business. Now government subsidises it.*

This is one aspect of plutcracy. Our political system gives business unjust power over the government, and it has used that power to reorient the government to solve all problems by giving more to business.

I've criticized a related aspect of plutocracy by calling for punishing companies that act in harmful ways, rather than rewarding companies that don't.

*Over 70 Economists Call for Biden Administration to Return Afghanistan's Central Bank Reserves.*

Louisiana is punishing the city of New Orleans for refusing to cooperate with the state's ban on abortions by cutting off bonds for improving the city's flood defenses.

A flood in New Orleans could kill hundreds of human beings, even thousands. Anti-abortion fanatics don't particularly care about them because they are post-birth. However, some fraction would be pregnant, and many of those would have brought those pregnancies to term if they had survived. Do the fanatics care about the survival of those fetuses?

*The Climate Movement's Fight to Undo the Worst Provisions in the IRA Begins.*

The US is still bombing Somalia, after starting in 2011.