The "essential workers" at New York City's wholesale fruit and vegetable market demonstrated how essential they are by going on strike demanding one additional dollar per hour.

Ralph Nader calls for reinvigorating the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, so it can once again protect Americans from injury in traffic collisions, and other problems that vehicles cause.

I wish he recognized that cars with computers remotely controlled by the manufacturer pose threats that are not limited to being taken over by some third party.

China's government is so powerful that even the biggest businesses and the richest billionaires can't push the country around. Alas, China has the opposite problem: the government can crush anyone.

We are left with the challenge of making a government that is powerful enough to stand up to businesses day after day, but that respects human rights.

*Beware Corporate ‘Democracy Washing’: Twitter, Trump, and the Danger of Privatizing the Fight Against Fascism.*

If a publicly owned system operated with Facebook's incentives, it would act like Facebook and tend to do the same harm that Facebook does. I've proposed a system which would serve Facebook's original purpose — giving people a way to enable others to find them by name — and do nothing else.

As an experiment, there is one: plumebio.com.

While sheltering in her office on Jan 6, Rep. Ayanna Pressley and her staff discovered that all the alarm buttons in her office had been removed at some earlier time.

This looks suspiciously like insider participation in a plan for violence against her.

I've voted for Pressley twice, and I want to do so many more times.