Google is paying powerful News Corp (the Wall Street Journal, etc) for presenting its articles in Australia, but don't forget about smaller publishers.

I think it is good to make large, profitable online services pay to make use of publications, but we must be on guard against any attempt to turn that into a part of copyright power and impose the same requirement on nonprofit web sites.

However, it might be good to direct some of this money to the authors. Why not?

How private equity funds exaggerate the profitability of investing in them. Don't trust what they claim they can do.

The Department of Transportation agreed to an alliance between American Airlines and Jet Blue. But now it will reconsider the decision, because such alliances are anticompetitive.

Texas thugs arrested a man for walking while black during a snowstorm. Fortunately, nothing worse resulted.

For $25 billion, the US could easily give everyone Covid-19 vaccine.

Given what Russia and China are doing, providing vaccine to everyone else would cost considerably less. Wouldn't it be great to put an end to Covid-19 sooner? And the US would win gratitude for this generosity, just as Russia and China are winning it now

But the US should not spend the money on windfall profits by paying high prices. First it should allow other manufacturers, to reduce what vaccines cost.

The article refers to patents as "intellectual property". That term causes confusion which benefits patent holders as they try to restrict others. It's a shame that representatives of organizations that seek to serve the public good speak in ways that build up the obstructive power of patents.