When drive-through cafes employ women wearing only underclothes, is that a form of exploitation that they should be protected from?

I don't object to these businesses. What I object to is a society that pays millions of workers so little that some might feel they have no choice but to work in these jobs. People who feel uncomfortable doing them should not have to do them.

The "president" of the Maldive Islands arrested judges to stop the Supreme Court from freeing imprisoned legislators.

The elected president Masheed campaigned globally to curb global heating. I suspect that oil interests helped arrange the coup against him.

If global heating goes far enough, the questions of democracy and human rights in the Maldives will cease to matter. Long before they are entirely inundated, they will be unable to support their population. The rulers, however, will probably get the chance to move elsewhere.

With global heating bringing frequent deep droughts in many regions, how could they think of using fossil fuels in ways that also need lots of fresh water? I refer to coal seam gas production.

It must take a lot of money to convince enough people not to do the right thing by insisting on renewable energy instead.

Truly long-term defense against running out of water requires defending against population increase. We must ask for everyone's cooperation in this.

I am looking for people to help web sites put free licenses on their Javascript code.

70-year-old Ian Bone holds clever and funny nonviolent protests against squeezing non-rich people out of housing.

His protests embarrass billionaires from Qatar, so the UK government has used an injunction to ban them. Injunctions are the standard UK method of ordering poor people to obey rich people.