Unauthorized immigrants enable companies to drive wages down precisely because they are unauthorized. One way to stop this would be to authorize them.

The flaw in that solution is that it would encourage tremendous numbers of people to try to enter the US expecting to be authorized later. US population growth is due to immigration; more immigration would mean rapid population increase, and rapid increase in ecological footprint.

Maybe someone can find a way to modify the proposal to avoid this flaw while still serving the purpose.

Amazon is starting a long term attack against the option of buying groceries anonymously, by opening stores that accept only electronic payment.

States should pass laws requiring stores to accept cash payment without hassles.

Corrupt Republican congresscritters accuse the director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of "lobbying" because she published editorials about the danger of chemicals whose suspected toxicity has not been studied.

Canada has terminated its main climate research program.

Canada's national thug force has secretly endorsed global heating denialism and calls the "anti-petroleum movement" a threat to national security. This in a briefing memo aimed at proposals for new "anti-terror" legislation.

In the long term, "anti-terror" laws are a bigger threat to national security than the few terrorists they claim to protect us from.

The now-cancelled national voter-suppression commission asked for voter data from all states. With Texas, it asked for one more step: to indicate which family names were Hispanic.