UK policies designed to discourage sweetened sodas seem to have improved the health of children's' teeth.

An IRS audit of Microsoft found that it owes $29 billion dollars in back taxes. *The IRS rejected Microsoft’s attempts to channel profits to a small factory in Puerto Rico that burned Windows software onto CDs.*

Cory Doctorow: *Microsoft put their tax-evasion in writing and now they owe $29 billion.*

*"Tax avoidance" (which is [supposedly] legal) isn't a separate phenomenon from "tax evasion" (which is not), but rather a thinly veiled euphemism for it:… The tax-avoidance strategies revealed in the IRS Files are obviously tax evasion, and the IRS simply let it slide [until Biden fixed it].*

*the U.S. Department of Energy-led framework [for monitoring methane release] will not require producers to make or keep pledges to reduce their overall production of oil and gas and, as a result, will be weaponized by the fossil fuel industry to justify increased production.*

The article describes other flaws too.

*Companies that make political donations are more than twice as likely to win government contracts and should be banned from working with departments for an entire electoral cycle, according to a key transparency group.*

I second that. Preventing what is effectively a form of corruption is important.

A counterargument is that those who award contracts may have no idea of recent donations to political parties. My response to that is, yes but so what? Preventing what is effectively a form of corruption is important. Making it safe for businesses to donate to political parties is basically harmful.

Indeed, it would be better to prohibit such donations outright.

Milei, the right-wing candidate for president of Argentina alienated military veterans by confirming his adoration for Margaret Thatcher, the Tory prime minister.

Thatcher sent a fleet to liberate the Falkland Islands from the Argentine military dictatorship. (That's the same dictatorship that tortured Argentines who were on the left, then murdered them by dropping them into the ocean from airplanes.)

Liberating the Falklands, whose population is of English descent, was the only good thing Thatcher did that I know of. That had the indirect result of restoring democracy in Argentina. Aside from that, her actions were to break unions, reward greed and crush the poor. I would guess that those things are what Milei admires her for. He also admires Bolsonaro and the insurrectionist, according to Wikipedia.