"DNA vaccines" could amount to genetic engineering, since the genes they carry get incorporated into the genome of the animal (which may be a human) that gets vaccinated.

A DNA vaccine is not necessarily bad or unjust, but it has the potential to be so. So they need to be studied carefully, not rushed into use. It is therefore a matter of concern that some of the vaccines being developed against Covid-19 are DNA vaccines.

The 2008 fiscal crisis damaged US-led globalization. Covid-19 has damaged China-dominated globalization.

Can we stop globalization from bouncing back?

Globalization is the triumph of efficiency over resilience, and profit over people. If we learn the lesson, we will strengthen resilience, and that means pruning the globalization.

Plutocratist Democrats' new idea for giving some nonrich Americans medical insurance is to subsidize their premiums for the insurance they had before they were laid off.

The criticism in the article exaggerates, which is a shame since it is mostly valid. This would give laid-off former full-time workers something: it would pay part of the cost of continuing the coverage that they most of them received from their employers. Which is usually a lousy plan with high deductible and high copay.

Compared with a national medical system, it is a little better than nothing.

Meanwhile, the US government is giving big airlines billions, plus loans.

Australia is offering to end lockdown if 40% of the people carry a contact-tracing app.

Under ordinary circumstances I would refuse to carry any such thing; no need to bother investigating the details.

Nowadays, due to the epidemic, I feel an obligation to cooperate with contact tracing. But that does not mean I would accept anything whatsoever under the rubric of contact tracing, regardless of what else it really does.

And that goes double in Australia, due to its law that authorizes the state to order the developers of any product or service to secretly sabotage it.

A judge ruled that one of the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline's environmental review was not properly done. Construction across water has been put on hold.

No wonder the saboteur in chief wants to get rid of environmental reviews for large projects (the ones with the potential to do really big harm).