Republicans are hard at work removing blacks and poor people from voter lists.

They know they can't win an election, so they put their efforts into rigging elections. The bully was "elected" this way and so in 2018 was the governor of Georgia.

Lamar Johnson was convicted of murder, but the real killers confessed in 1998 and 2002. Even though it was known that the "evidence" him was falsified by a thug, it took him until now to win a new trial.

This is because many judges and officials would rather keep an innocent man in prison for years than admit that their system made a mistake. They think that if they never admit a mistake, we will believe they never make any.

The Democracy for All constitutional amendment would narrowly reverse the Corporations United decision which ruled that corporations have a "human right" to spend money on electioneering.

I prefer the more powerful proposed amendment which would reject the idea that corporations are entitled to human rights.

Advertising considered as a cancer on society.

I largely agree. I think that the worst aspect of today's advertising (and the reason there is so much of it) is the collection of personal data — but the article identifies other ways in which advertising corrupts society which don't depend on knowing anything about who sees the ads — for instance, paid-for articles (I won't use the euphemism "sponsored" or the derogatory term "content" for this) and individuals who are paid to insert advertising into their lives as "influencers".

However, if you are like me, you probably wouldn't notice what brand of coffee appears in your friend's photo, so it would fail to exert any influence.

Because one passenger died in an old steam train, all the antique steam trains in the UK will be required to implement expensive (and anachronistic) upgrades to the windows and doors.

Those that can't afford this will have to stop running passenger excursions. Which is likely to mean most of them.

If we want to make society safer and reduce deaths, we should focus on the cost-effective options, such as programs that help poor people, birth control, and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.