New York State is suing ExxonMobil for concealing how future global heating could damage the value of its shares.

The fact that cheating shareholders is more susceptible to legal action than helping to kill (at least) hundreds of millions of people is a sad comment on the way the world is governed.

A federal appeals court ruled that Georgia cannot use copyright to restrict access to its laws, or their government-composed "annotations".

I would rejoice, but I don't know whether this decision will be final. It could be appealed to the plutocratist-dominated US Supreme Court.

Casualties of the War on Drugs in Alabama: thousands prosecuted for using marijuana, and everyone else in Alabama, who bear the expense of jailing them.

If that were not bad enough, Alabama makes it nastier by selectively targeting blacks to jail. However, even if it chose victims without racial bias, the total gratuitous harm would be the same.

It is cheaper to give homeless people proper toilets to use than to force them to defacate on the street and then clean it up.

However, it would be even cheaper, and far more effective, to require all restaurants to allow everyone to use their toilets, and to announce visibly that they do.

Italy's help may make it possible to defeat the unconscionable copyright censorship article in the EU copyright directive.