The World Bank rates every country on the "ease of doing business", which turns out to mean the "ease of big foreign companies' muscling in."

The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally indirectly led to 260,000 cases of Covid-19, which is likely to include at least hundreds of deaths.

Gratuitous foolish disease spreading on subsequent occasions must have contributed.

Postmaster Dejoy faces investigation in North Carolina for the crime of passing campaign contributions through intermediaries.

The wrecker cannot pardon him from state charges and his flunky in charge of the "Justice Department" cannot call off the investigation.

However, I don't see how this investigation could make Dejoy undo the harm he has done to mail delivery. I doubt he could even be charged before election day.

Firing him would not help either, because he is not an individual criminal loner. He is part of a shameless political machine. If he were gone, the wrecker would put in another hatchet man to finish the job.

The remake of Mulan was filmed partly in Xinjiang with the help of a Chinese government agency that also runs brainwashing camps.

It may seem advantageous that US commercial culture production sells well in China, but it gives the Chinese government influence over what American companies say or show to the rest of the world about China.

Americans, pay attention to the PRO Act, which would help workers unionize.