Venezuela's medical system is crippled by shortages of basic supplies.

The article attributes these shortages purely to Maduro, and mentions US sanctions in a way that doubts that they matter. Chavez's subsidies created shortages in the everyday goods that he subsidized, but the shortages became much broader and worse after the bully imposed the sanctions.

The bully is pushing sanctions on Venezuela as hard as it can.

The Boston subways and buses are running on a reduced schedule, supposedly to encourage "social distancing". I can't follow the logic of that. Running fewer buses or trains will mean more people ride together in each one. The effect of that will be exactly the opposite of what they claim is the goal.

If you can figure out what sense they think this move has, please tell me by email.

Upward social mobility is no longer giving people overall a better life, says the best expert on the field. As some move upward, others move down. But only a small fraction move very far in either direction.

Decades ago, the developed world was creating many additional well-paid jobs, so there was more mobility upward than downward. Nowadays, neither one is true.

Thus, to make a large number of people better off in the developed world requires massively deconcentrating wealth (for instance, more support for the poor, a Green New Deal, and Medicare for All) or massively eliminating waste (such as, a Green New Deal, and Medicare for All).

(satire) *Congress Allocates $2 Trillion To Bail Out Struggling Bailout Industry.*

Pelosi tricked the House of Representatives to vote for a reduction in the new paid sick leave provision by calling the change "technical", implying there was no significant alteration.