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.

The UK plans to ban "harmful" material on the internet, including disinformation.

UK sites would be forced to delete the material; other sites would be blocked by the Great Firewall of Britain if they did not.

It isn't surprising to see Singapore set up a "ministry of truth" for the internet. Singapore is repressive in many ways. But it may shock people to see the UK proposing something similar.

When the UK censors, it goes to extremes.

The US government made a fake university to lure unauthorized immigrants into applying.

Then US persecutors pretended that the students knew it was fake and signed up only as a fraud — but that is clearly false in many cases, perhaps all.

US offers of "humanitarian aid" for Venezuela, even if they are not a mask for military intervention, are duplicitous. The aid offered would hardly come near making up for the increased shortage of food and medicine that new US economic sanctions will cause.

They also won't be enough to fill the shortages caused by Maduro's bad policies.

To treat the offer just like an armed attack is neither right nor good tactics. Venezuela could use the aid, and I expect the government can arrange to make sure it does not contain weapons.

Artists are campaigning against Cuba's censorship of the arts.