Reportedly China randomly searches people's phones in Xinjiang and imprisons people for having the Twitter or Facebook app.

To help working people escape poverty, the US needs to adopt a higher minimum wage, and facilitate unionization.

But it needs to work on the other side of inequality — to stop wealthy people's incomes from growing so fast and so much.

Refuting the position that college should be expensive because graduates have bigger incomes.

There is another counterargument that this article misses: if our tax system were progressive, those who gain income from a college degree _would_ pay more to support government services. Taxing the rich more would achieve the same goal as charging heavily for college.

Many US jails are putting an end to prisoners' visits from relatives.

They replace this with a video call service that gouges the relatives and which gives the jail a kickback.

Anything that reduces prisoners' contact with relatives tends to result in increased recidivism. Surely this will, too. For the city or state that runs the jail, it's a false economy.

Wisconsin gave Foxconn billions of dollars to build a factory and it has not even built the factory.

Wisconsin's deal to subsidize a Foxconn factory was fundamentally wrong, regardless of specifics. To subsidize the rich so they will move jobs to your locality from some other localities adds up to dooH niboR.

I suppose many "moderate" politicians really believe that this policy serves the public interest. That way, they can go along with dooH niboR and not feel ashamed. But today's Republicans are so dishonest and corrupt that they don't need to believe that. For them, enriching the rich is the goal. They don't mind if the state gets cheated of the supposed public interest, as long as the rich get richer.