Progressives in Congress propose to fund the IRS adequately to audit lots of rich people to see if they are evading taxes.

Mergers of large companies are often approved under the idea that the resulting very large company can compete with a pre-existing very large company.

The net result is to exacerbate the concentration of that industry, which is the initial problem. Thus, this way of thinking is a pretend-solution that contributes to the problem.

The right thing to do is to break up the pre-existing very large company.

Forest protectors in Canada are trying to defend old-growth forests while factions among of the indigenous peoples are trying to sell the timber.

Protecting wild lands must be a global priority, Well-organized indigenous peoples are often excellent defenders of wild lands, but we should not let indigenous people cut down old-growth forests any more than we let other people do so.

California is likely to have devastating fires again this year.

No local wildlands management can possibly overcome the inexorable effects of continuing global heating, just as no construction of seawalls can possibly overcome the inexorable effects of continuing sea level rise.

We need to curb global heating.

San Francisco has a new plan to house homeless people. Previous efforts have in many cases offered people housing that requires they give up their work, their close relationships, or their pets.