Explaining why the overthrow of President Morales was indeed a coup, indeed a military coup, even though it didn't operate in quite the usual way. And showing how the US worked for years to bring it about.

*Sidewalk Labs' quiet plan for Canada's banks to manage a national digital ID for health care and housing.*

A unified ID data base for various unrelated purposes is dangerous regardless of details. That is because linked data bases potentiate each other for controlling people. I think there should be a law that a credential established by the state for one purpose may not be used for any unrelated purpose.

"OxyContin’s makers delayed the reckoning for their role in the opioid crisis by funding think tanks, placing friendly experts on leading outlets, and deterring or challenging negative coverage."

Worker-owned cooperative gig platforms can eliminate the exploitation of workers typical in the piecework sweatshop service economy.

Alas, many of them exploit the customers in the same way as Amazon and Uber: users must run a nonfree "app" and identify themselves.

The "platform cooperativism" movement needs to get on the right track and protect users as well as workers from exploitation. Platforms must give people a way to get the service anonymously and pay cash, without ever being told to run a nonfree program.

If any of these platforms satisfies those criteria, please tell me. I would like to hold it up as a good example.

Ideas for reforming the structure of the US Supreme Court.

I am not convinced any of these would be an improvement for the long term. Any possible structure is vulnerable to subversion if a powerful corrupt party takes over the other branches of government. We have a temporary problem — five right-wing judges — and we should fix that, but there is no point hoping that it will be better in some lasting or intrinsic way.