*Biden extended contracts to private immigration jails despite reports of "horrific" conditions.*

It is unjust to let businesses run prisons, because that is a luring temptation for the business to profit by mistreating the prisoners. Privatization eliminates their accountability.

Private prisons should not be allowed under any circumstances.

Some parts of the UK have privatized the issuing of fines for minor nuisances. They have creatively stretched the definitions of these minor nuisances so as to make life a mode of harassment.

Chicago gave a company the contract to run street parking and to profit as much as it can contrive to do. After that, the streets were run so as to suit that company, not the city and residents of Chicago.

It just goes to show, never privatize a function of government.

Americans overwhelmingly call for dangerous drugs to be treated as a medical issue rather than prosecuted.

*Disbelief turns to jubilation in Damascus* as Assad's departure inspired the soldiers in his army to pull off their uniforms.

With nearly everyone in Europe in favor of action to reduce greenhouse emissions, what is difficult is to design policies that will win enough support to overcome the inevitable resistance.

According to the article, the keys to winning support for concrete measures are (1) winning people's trust in the political leaders and (2) compensating non-rich people for the short-term costs of the solution.

(1) is a point I have made here.