Various methods of taking CO₂ out of the air are slowing advancing.

These systems would become competitive much sooner if we (1) end the subsidies for fossil fuels and (2) tax them to cover the damage that they will do.

A few of the Americans born in poverty are so capable that, with good luck, they can escape poverty, maybe even get rich.

There is no way that the majority could do this — the climb is too steep, and the number of prosperity slots is limited.

The United Nations made it illegal for a state to go to war without a very specific excuse. This discouraged wars, though not with complete effectiveness. But nowadays states face less and less pushback when they start wars.

I am looking for people to write a recipe for how to connect to the WiFi in a New York City subway station without running its nonfree Javascript code. The recipe could include a free Javascript program I could run, or it could consist of instructions for what I would type into IceCat (our variant of Firefox). It doesn't have't be super convenient, it just has to work.

Several Britons have been convicted of enslaving vulnerable men and forcing them to work laying down tarmac.

This underlines the point that enslavement of workers is not a matter of the nature of the job. It is more a matter of the nature of society. People get enslaved and forced to do whatever job because they are in a vulnerable position, often in a foreign country and told they are in debt (though that wasn't the case here).