The UK provides temporary housing for homeless people, but sometimes it is so bad that it makes the inhabitants sick.

Meanwhile, New York City is letting public housing fall apart, perhaps with a view to selling the land for building luxury apartments.

That form of privatization is widespread, and very lucrative for some businesses, but leaves the residents in even worse situations.

US private insurance companies often agree to pay hospitals inflated prices for operations. They pass on the cost in higher premiums, after the inflated price screws the patient with a high copay.

The summit between the two Supreme Leaders is on again.

I seem to have been right that the bully's cancellation wasn't meant to be final. I had a feeling that it was uttered in the language of bullying. And why not? It is the native language of both of them.

The bully is effectively devoid of honesty. Whatever he says, it is meant to have some dramatic effect, not to state what he believes, what he wants, or what he intends to do.

Each time there is a president that is worse than anyone we remember, the previous worst presidents use it to bury their crimes and get rehabilitated. Dubya is now doing this.

Students Go on Hunger Strike to Pressure Cambridge University to Divest [from fossil fuels].