The UK's high tech unified system for welfare benefits is a catastrophe for the people it is supposed to serve.

Secondarily, it fails to deliver the efficiency improvements that it was supposed to provide. Not that operating efficiency could justify cutting people's benefits so that they go hungry or become homeless.

Thugs in Newark, New Jersey, have set up cameras in public places and made the feeds available to everyone. They invite everyone to watch everyone else.

This is even worse for privacy than if only the thugs are watching. (And they are, of course — and surely saving the recordings permanently.)

"Income inequality isn't the defining social issue of our time because your neighbor bought a slightly bigger house or nicer car than you did. It's because multi-millionaires and billionaires are competing for slightly bigger mega-yachts while our friends … plead for help with basic medical expenses."

Some establishment Democrats are highly unhappy with the idea of peace in the Korean peninsula.

South Korean President Moon could guide things to a good outcome.

The US establishment rejects the idea of peace in Korea unless it is achieved through the total submission of North Korea.

As I see it, avoiding nuclear war with the repressive nuclear-armed North Korean regime is important progress, just as avoiding nuclear war with the repressive nuclear-armed Soviet regime was important progress.

Progressives Denounce Democratic Senators for Trying to Keep Trump on a 'Permanent War Footing' in Korea.