The concentration of many industries goes hand in hand with the concentration of wealth and the loss of democracy.

It's not humanity in general that is causing global heating disaster. The plutocrats that have taken control of our planet are the culpable humans.

New York City has required "gig" platforms to pay workers a decent wage for the time they are on call.

Kosovo now offers a pension to women who were raped as an act of war by Serb soldiers.

What made rape such an effective weapon in that war is the patriarchal attitude of Kosovan society, which regards women as (in effect) property and considers them worthless if they are not "chaste". Serbs raped them so that their own families would betray them.

If these women want to make themselves so strong that such betrayal can no longer weigh down their spirits, they could consider going to Rojava (in Syria) and joining the Kurdish Women's Protection Units. Their help may be needed there.

Community schools are run by the local school board, but get an extra subsidy and make broad efforts to help students overcome their handicaps.

Community schools may be a real improvement over ordinary public schools even when the latter are well funded, but only time will tell. Any experimental change in education — supposing the students don't hate it — has a tendency to work better, for a while, simply because it is an experiment.