US politics must consider the poor again. A fight between the middle class and the wealthy has pushed them down for decades.

"You can't enforce a ban on mobile phones in the classroom &mdash we should teach kids to hate them instead."

I am doing my part &mdash please join me.

Human agriculture may be causing the excess of seaweed that is making Mexico's beaches unpleasant.

Fertilizer runoff does other damage. Mexico needs to curb it, rather than cleaning beaches twice a day.

In China, companies actually pay people (with household goods) for personal data to train AIs.

Is this any better than what happens now in the US? I don't think so. A little pay cannot compensate for the loss anonymity cause by the spying and control that the AIs will enable.

LGBTQ+ Pride celebrations today are "rainbow-branded capitalism": instead of liberation, they demand for queers the same strictures that most straights suffer under.