US citizens: Call for de-escalation and ceasefire now in Gaza.

The answer to war crimes is not more war crimes.

US citizens: call on Congress to do everything it can to protect our freedom to vote.

If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

US citizens: call on your congresscritter to support the International and American Seabed Protection Acts.

If you phone, please spread the word! Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121

Many buildings in the US are nominally owned by shell companies. Tenants who want to complain about mistreatment can't report the landlord's address, as required, because it is secret. The New York State legislature has passed a bill requiring these shell companies to hand over crucial information to the public, such as who owns them.

Billionaires are lobbying the governor, whose progressive commitments are rather weak, not to sign it.

I suggest approaching this with a somewhat different law: to require every company that directly or indirectly owns a building to hand over all the crucial information about its ownership. If an building-owning company refuses to do this, the punishment should be seizure of the building.

These billionaires and exploiters deserve no clemency or comfort when they try to screw their tenants.

Construction of new houses generally churns them out full of grave flaws, sometimes dangerous.

The problem starts with concentration of the industry into a few large corporations, which (typically for large corporations) make greed their watchword.

Whenever large corporations systematically harm the public, the state should break them up.