The Patriotic Millionaires call for the US to continue the estate tax.

I think the estate tax should be extended to somewhat smaller estates. Why not tax estates' funds when they exceed one million dollars?

But the most important thing is to hamper the use of trusts to feed money to heirs without its being considered part of the estate.

SCROTUS are about to pass a bill to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

A fetus can't become a human being until it can interact with the world, which begins after birth. Before that point, abortion should be lawful. Society has no interest in pressuring for more humans to be born.

See also my article "Quantum Theory and Abortion Rights".

Billie Miller: how she, as health minister of Barbados, achieved legalization of abortion.

US universities have worked out how to pay most of their teachers too little money to live on. Many of them are at the edge of penury. Some are in penury.

Many suffer from the repression US cities visit on people who are homeless.

Many are ashamed, and hide the way they are mistreated. That makes it easy for colleges to continue mistreating them.

The Rainforest Action Network says that the palm oil company Agra Bumi Niaga continues chopping down the rain forest in Sumatra, wiping out orangutans, elephants, tigers and rhinos, and thousands of other species.

This is illegal but somehow the company does not fear punishment. Perhaps it has paid for impunity.