Food delivery companies can only be profitable if they exploit their workers by underpaying them.

This is in addition to the ways they exploit restaurants and their customers.

The Republican governor of Wyoming vetoed a bill passed by the Republican-dominated legislature that would have permitted carrying concealed guns in public schools in public meetings.

It's good that at least some Republicans are not total extremists.

Banks have a clever (but unsupported) theory to claim that their sneaky extra profits can't be reduced. It asserts that these extra profits are irresistible, and any laws again one scheme will lead banks to replace it with another.

The article presents boast theoretical arguments and empirical facts to reject that theory. What is really happening is that banks are trying to intimidate the public by saying, "You can't beat us, so give up."

But we can beat any sort of gouging if we elect politicians who really work for us and really want to beat them.

Political violence comes mainly from right-wing extremists, whipped up by right-wing extremist leaders. But many falsely blame the left.

Oil-company executives and their loyal servants held a meeting at which they declared that reducing fossil fuel use was a "fantasy", and that we should give up on it.

Their statements appear to claim that the task is intrinsically hard, but in fact the difficulty is created by them. The part they don't say is that the main obstacle to achieving that goal is all the money they spend opposing it. They spend it on misleading the public and they spend it on the support of politicians.

If the public is "unwilling to pay for a world with less carbon pollution," it is because they don't grasp the scope of the disaster the current path is leading to, from fires, floods, medical problems and failures of agriculture. By denying this, the planet roasters lead the public to suppose that they have a painless option.