US businesses say they are worried about opening because workers or customers who come down with Covid-19 might sue them.

The businesses have a valid point that the uncertainty does no one any good. But they demand more than they deserve — to protect them entirely from liability, so that they can do what they like and not worry about the consequences.

We should make good, clear rules about what businesses must do to protect their workers from Covid-19, then enforce those rules strictly. That will spare business the uncertainty but not the accountability.

A whistleblower complaint, filed a year ago, shows evidence that banks are allowing overvalued mortgages on commercial building property.

Banks' loan staff are supposed to detect and stop cheating. They can't be perfect, but I am sure they know their jobs. If there is a wave of cheating, the banks must be letting it happen.

I can't guess why a bank would do that, but I am sure that the intended fall guy will not be the bank.

*Billionaires Are the Biggest Threat to Public Schools.*

Arbery's killers told easily refutable lies in their first report of what happened when they killed hum.

It is crucial to prosecute them for these lies, as well as for murder, because we need to teach thugs that what they call "testilying" is going to be punished.

Two DAs in succession intervened to protect them. It is crucial to punish them, too. If what they did is not a crime, it is a least grounds to fire them.

Faux News and other right-wing disinformation channels are now denying the counted number of Covid-19 deaths, claiming that the figures are too high.

We know that the official counts are too low, because some deaths caused by Covid-19 were not tied to that disease at the time.