Private equity coalitions are trying to take over Medline, which makes and resells medical supplies.

If they destroy this company as they destroyed Toys-Я-Us, any of us could die as a direct result.

In the 1980s Savings and Loan scandal, hundreds of US banks engaged in outright cheating. President Bush I clamped down on the agency that reported the crimes so that future crimes would be protected.

Pinochet's constitution for Chile imposed a laissez-mourir "neoliberal" economy. The vote on the constitutional assembly indicates repudiation of that ideology — an intention to allow the government to limit the power of the rich and to actively help those that need help.

It is ironic that some bemoaned the surprise that the explicit requirement for 50% women in the assembly actually resulted in slightly increasing the number of men in the assembly. Does this mean they now reconsider whether it is right to have an explicit gender requirement in public elections?

I also wonder what will happen, or perhaps what did happen, in the encounter between such a requirement and transgender and nonbinary gender.

The British parliament has ceded too much power to ministers. Nowadays, UK ministers tend to be corrupt and unaccountable.

Denmark has decided to admit 22 Danish citizens who are in prison in Syria for involvement in PISSI.

Justice calls for this. Those people may be accused of participation in PISSI's crimes, but if so, they deserve trials to judge their actions. If they are convicted, exile should not be their punishment.