Food-delivery companies in New York City are using their money to block efforts to establish a livable minimum wage for their workers.

Those companies track and mistreat the customers while cheating restaurants. Please reject them!

Florida Republicans are waging lawfare on voter registration organizations.

For instance, some organizations get fined because a person registering wrote the wrong county name from ignorance.

The oil sheikh paradoxically in charge of the Cop28 climate conference now speaks clearly and firmly in favor of decarbonization, and "the phase down of fossil fuels."

That is a change for the better, but we can't take for granted that he is serious.

How people nowadays appropriate terms and concepts from psychotherapy, or pop psychology, and use them to justify making rigid demands of lovers, friends and relatives.

The progressive party that got the most votes in the Thai election has been blocked from governing, and its supporters (including most of the young people) are angry.

It is normal in a parliamentary system that forming a government requires support from a majority of parliament. It is normal, though unusual, that the party with the most seats is blocked from forming a government by a coalition of other parties.

What is not normal about the Thai system is that parliament includes members who were not elected — rather, appointed by the army. The closest thing to this that I know of is the UK's House of Lords.