A totally unnecessary prison sentence was given to a man who drank himself into a stupor, and didn't wake up when his dog killed his son.

Is he likely ever to do this again?

If this sentence deters anyone else from being similarly irresponsible, wouldn't just reading about the death of the baby be equally effective?

Emergency workers are suing the owners of the chemical plant that exploded near Houston, because the fumes appear to have made them sick while they were in the vicinity.

This lawsuit may enable the community to learn what chemicals were in the plant, and find out what diseases they are likely to get in the future as a result. But what about the hundreds of other plants that don't say what chemicals they work with? They should all be required to release this information, for the sake of public safety.

And that's just one example of the many regulations we need.

When working-class parents look at the way middle class parents pressure their children, they see it as denying them a childhood.

I agree with them.

The level of competition that middle-class college-bound children face nowadays is a consequence of the fact that the fraction of good jobs is decreasing. Middle-class parents therefore know that their children will have to compete to stay in the middle class. They also see that working-class life is getting ever more arduous and painful. If we fix that, it will go a long way to fixing all of these problems.

A new study estimates what fraction of global heating damage is due to each big oil company. They should have to pay for the damage done by Hurricane Harvey, and Hurricane Irma.

Not to mention all the other damage.

The Democratic Party should stop blaming the voters for being unattracted to its center-right political positions on anything that relates to the economy.