Pfizer and Moderna claim that non-rich countries have no ability to manufacture mRNA vaccines — but that is false.

Of course, it would be easy to put this to the test. Tell them what they need to know, and we will soon see whether they succeed in making the vaccine.

The article's authors have fallen into the fundamental confusion spread by the term "intellectual property". If you use that pseudo-concept, what you say about patents will be false because lots of things that describe various other laws will be mixed into the mishmash.

New York City should deal with anti-vaxx thugs by getting stricter.

I suggest asking the public to send in photos of thugs who are unmasked in public — and fine the thugs $100 for each occasion they are proved to have been maskless. Half of that could be a reward for whoever took the photo.

Robert Reich: The US rich have got much richer because their political clout enabled them to cut their taxes. They have mostly neutralized the wealth taxes that the US adopted around 1900.

We can make them function again, if we are determined.

*Julian Assange and fiancee claim they are being blocked from marrying.*

*'I get scared': the young activists sounding the alarm from climate tipping points.*

What they are warning about is not specific tipping points. We usually don't know exactly where those are located. Rather, it is the fact that systems are starting to tip.