The low wages of the US economy are part of a system designed to make some people rich and keep most people struggling.

The UK government convened a commission of experts to write a report on race relations and racism — then Bogus Johnson's staff rewrote their text to get rid of the idea of systemic racism.

Republican minority rule in Michigan has brought about a surge in Covid-19, and the governor is powerless to do anything effective to stop it.

She has asked Biden to send more vaccine doses to Michigan, but even if he does, the time scale for curbing Covid-19 by vaccination is measured in months — if Republican antivaxxers don't prevent it from reaching that point.

The only known methods to stop the surge now are those that prevent transmission of the disease, which is exactly what Republican covidiots refuse to do.

Republicans in Michigan have made the elections unfair through gerrymandering. That is why they control the legislature even though the voters elected a Democratic governor.

Michigan Republicans are trying to build up hatred against Democrats, and since the governor is a woman, they are using misogyny as part of it.

On the global scale, Covid-19 is spreading exponentially.

No matter what political decisions are made this year, there is no hope of vaccinating billions of people. The only chance of slowing the global spread of Covid-19 this year is by preventing transmission.

Kentucky has responded to the killing of Breonna Taylor by putting stricter conditions on the use of no-knock warrants.

The requirements for carrying out no-knock warrants may do some good, but the added conditions for obtaining no-knock warrants won't make any difference if all they do is require thugs to tell a bigger lie.

Has the detective that lied to get that warrant been punished? If we want to teach cops to be honest, we must give them more than a slap on the wrist when they lie. And that must not be limited to cases like this one, where the lie results in someone's death. Even those of us who reject religion must not tolerate bearing false witness.

One minor detail: In the winter, 6am is just as dark as 2am, and many day-time workers and students are still asleep at 6am.

*Italian prosecutors secretly recorded human rights lawyers.*

The lawyers were talking with their clients, who operated rescue boats to save drowning refugees.