For decades, US urban transportation facilities have been situated in places where they cut off or eliminated black neighborhoods. Their disenfranchisement (even where not official) left them unable to stop this.

Biden's new restrictions on financing fossil fuel development outside the US are simultaneously a great advance and terribly inadequate.

This is the Biden pattern. Starting from such a low level of climate defense, it is not difficult to make a great advance and be terribly inadequate.

Wealthy countries set up a scheme called Covax to donate vaccine to poor countries, instead of permitting alternate producers. But Covax is running far behind its schedule. The manufacturers are not delivering as much as they promised.

I continue to support ordering the vaccine companies to stop impeding the generic manufacture of vaccines.

CVS recently donated millions of dollars to a lobbying campaign against single-payer medical care.

We could think of it as PAHCEF, or Partnership for America's Heath Care's Expensive Future.

Amazon is offering customers the option of using palm-prints to identify themselves.

In situations where it is acceptable to demand people identify themselves, palm-prints are somewhat better than fingerprints, because people in other activities leave fewer palm prints than fingerprints.

However, people people should not have to identify themselves to buy things.