Over a million Americans have had their driver's licenses suspended because of fines they can't pay. They have to drive anyway so they get fined more for driving with a suspended license. This leads to a vicious circle of debt.

The only way to make fines achieve their supposed goal is to make sure everyone has enough money to pay a fine — and nobody has so much money as not to notice a fine.

Romanians Protest Against Weakening of Anti-Corruption Powers (again).

Info about the previous time.

Many of the Tory benefits cuts result in increased state expenditure. Does that make them irrational?

It does, according to their stated goal of reducing expenditure — but their real purpose is to demonize people that need help. That, they do achieve, however great the cost.

"Each generation perceives the environment into which it's born, no matter how developed, urbanized, or polluted, as the norm."

It is cheaper in some places to build new renewable electric generators than to continue running existing coal or nuclear power plants.

However, the owners of the existing plants have money to spend on buying political support to keep running them and make the public pay.