*This is what "cutting red tape" gets you: rivers polluted without consequence.*

Our safety depends on enforcement of safety regulations; that's one of the many missions for which we need the state.

The IMF should reallocate its "special drawing rights" to help poor countries make up for the harm done by slavery and colonialism.

I see one flaw in the article: it talks about "solutions" for the climate crisis in a way that seems shifty. Does this refer to efforts to reduce and stop global heating, which is treating the disease, or does it refer to assuaging some of the immediate symptoms for the short term? The former will help save civilization and nature; the latter will only help delay some of the damage for a few decades.

We must insist on this distinction so we can focus on the long term.

Manchin and Sinema say they will block the voting rights bills, by refusing to vote an exception to the filibuster for them.

I heard that Schumer plans to have a floor vote on this question on Wednesday, to put them on the spot.

Students in some US cities are going on strike, demanding either protective masks and testing, or remote education.

I understand their wish for remote education, for safety. Unfortunately, the way US schools normally do remote education is a threat to their freedom. Schools should not ask students to run a nonfree program or give data to an online dis-service.

Just 0.01% of bitcoin holders control 27% of the existing bitcoin. Thus, bitcoin is basically a system for concentrating wealth.