"Liberal democracy is at a critical point." How to protect it?

In India, people of the Valmiki caste are effectively forced to clean toilets and septic tanks, because the caste bigotry won't let them do anything else.

Rather than doing the job the safe and clean way that it's done elsewhere, they are forced to do it by hand without safety gear. That makes the work dangerous.

Without the bigotry, the job would have to be done by someone, but it could be done safely. A society without caste bigotry might invest in plumbing to make parts of the job unnecessary.

The Tories say austerity has hit its targets. Fortunately not all of them are dead.

US citizens: oppose the bully's budget.

US citizens: call on Congress to ban distribution and production of assault weapons and large magazines.