A New Orleans restaurant invites white customers to pay extra, optionally, to illustrate the income disparity between white inhabitants and black inhabitants.

I might give some money on the strength of this disparity, to a campaign for equality. However, I don't think I would donate to a business. So I would suggest that the restaurant offer to give the extra $18 to a worthy anti-racist campaign.

The US Congress has adopted a law to openly encourage contact with officials of ally Taiwan. China thinks the US has no right to do this.

In the 1970s, China was a valuable ally against the Soviet Union. Now that China is powerful, it tries to bully other countries about this, while beginning military expansion in the South China Sea. At the same time, it is becoming ever more oppressive. I think it is good to show tyrant Xi that there are limits to how much he can get other countries to kowtow.

Leaks say that the bully and Pompeo have resumed using CIA assassination squads, as in Vietnam in the 1960s.

Everyone: Call on Starbucks to increase its commitment to plastic recycling.

US citizens: call on state governors to protect the right to protest.