UK Tory ministers got a warning two years ago that people living in nursing homes would be in special danger in any epidemic.

The ministers do not seem to have taken action to protect them.

*Beneath the mixed messages, the Tories are putting wealth ahead of well-being.*

In Virginia you can eat at a restaurant and talk with mannequins.

Hold on there! Everyone else isn't dead yet.

Michigan students won a suit against the state for failing to provide them with books and teachers and usable school buildings, so they could learn to read.

The director of the World Trade Organization has resigned, feeling thwarted in his efforts to make the WTO give businesses ever more power over democracy.

Making business-supremacy treaties more powerful is part of the plutocratist agenda. "Reduce trade barriers to support economic growth" means "give business more power."