The countries that sabotage efforts to protect Earth's climate are the ones with the most inequality.

I conjecture that the high inequality is the result of the richest's having taken control of those countries' governments years ago, and that control enables the same plutocrats to make the governments let our planet roast.

The year's top ten incidents of oppressive overprotection of the more-or-less young — children, adolescents, and even college students that are legally adults.

I speculate that the general acceptance of overprotection of minors promotes acceptance of overprotection of everyone, including massive surveillance. Regardless of your age, this threatens you.

Goldman Sachs and some of its staff face charges in regard to Najib Razak's mega-corruption.

Texas, New York, California and many other states impose a political loyalty oath on some public employees — a loyalty oath to Israel. The US congress is now considering imposing one.

Since I support the boycott of companies that operate in Israel's colonies in Palestinian territory, a boycott that was launched in Israel by Uri Avnery, I am one of the many excluded from those jobs for their political views.

Israel, keep your hands off Americans' freedom!

Progressives: Be Careful of the Comfort of Placating the Privileged at the Expense of the Afflicted.

This article refers to a letter in which Martin Luther King, Jr., criticized white "moderates" who said that blacks should not be in such a hurry to win equality — they should wait a few centuries and see what happens.

The area in which I most hear the argument that "We must not tell people how bad things are, or it would discourage them" is that of global heating, in which we know from the hard figures that each year lost makes it less likely we can avoid the disaster at all.