Many US schools require students to lock their phones into a pouch during the school day.

This seems to be a good thing, as far as I can tell from the article, but it doesn't do the whole job. It ought to block the phone's radio reception and transmission, so that the phone can't track the students' movements in school. It should also block sound; otherwise any phone can keep listening to the whole class, if its software has been remotely modified to do that.

US regulations on lead in the water supply should be much more strict, and we should replace all the lead water pipes.

Sanders's plan to protect media from dangerous consolidation: block mergers, undo some past consolidation, fund independent media, and limit the dominance of Facebook and Google over media.

I'd like to see more details of how he would limit the dominance of Facebook and Google, but in principle I'm in favor. I support the rest of the plan, too.

This would be a candidate for using my proposed progressive tax on business to pressure media giants to split up.

The west is being destroyed, not by migrants, but by the fear of migrants. In country after country, the ghosts of the fascists have rematerialised … They have successfully convinced their populations that the greatest threat to their nations isn’t government tyranny or inequality or climate change, but immigration.

The UK set up a media web site to lead Muslims away from extremism by raising other important social and political issues.

It seems like a good idea to me, but why treat it as a secret? Is there some other side to it that we still don't know about?