Amazon is run so as to undercut the competition and never make a profit, thus never pay much taxes. Instead, its aim is to make its stock value go up.

Perhaps a corporation should pay taxes on increase in its stock price.

Right-wingers who condemn "chain migration" turn out to be products of it.

So are Pence and the bully.

Any babies can become good members of our society. Human babies are flexible, and can pick up whatever culture they are brought up in. They can do this more completely if the state provides them with good schools to help.

We only need to avoid letting the total population increase very much.

Publicly-supported private schools invite asset-stripping.

The nationwide focus on encouraging students to have more "grit" focuses on a secondary factor, and this focus pushes aside the giant handicap imposed on poor people's children by poverty and by their underfunded schools.

Global [heating] Made Hurricane Harvey's Deadly Rains Three Times More Likely.

In other words, global heating was 3/4 of the cause of the high level of damage. The other 1/4 was chance, as far as we know.