The UK has ordered a Syrian refugee to return to Syria. He fears he will be jailed for leaving rather than be conscripted to fight in Assad's army.

Ralph Nader calls for a ten-year plan to reverse the takeover of the US by business, including the idea that businesses deserve rights as much as human beings.

That takeover is why working people can't live like Homer Simpson.

Now even in CNN: arguing that people should save the planet by having fewer children.

It's good to reproduce bugs, to fix them. It's good to reproduce works of art, to share them. But we need to have a lot less reproducing of human beings, in every part of the world, to greatly reduce the load we put on nature.

US citizens: call on Congress to reform the Electoral Count Act in order to close a loophole the wrecker tried to use for the coup.

But Congress should watch out for this pitfall.

The UK has yielded to evident moral obligation and will pay to replace the flammable cladding in all the buildings that have it. Previously the Tories planned to do this only for the taller buildings. I never saw a justification for making that distinction, and I can't see one.

This is the right way to handle that issue.

However, there are buildings that were built with other dangerous features, and they raise the same issue.

If the builders skimped on satisfying building codes, the builders should pay.