Exxon and several other large companies endorsed a carbon emissions tax, but in exchange they demand abolition of other policies designed to reduce CO2 emissions.

Whether the tax would do a better job depends on whether the tax is big enough. I have no way of judging that question.

Don't think of war as a remedy for the death of Otto Warmbier. War would be much worse.

It is clear that the North Koreans did not kill him intentionally. If they had done that, it would not have looked like this.

We don't know why he died, and — most strangely — his family has forbidden an autopsy.

The troll has said nothing about the terrorist attack on Muslim in London, tacitly expressing his acceptance of random violence against them.

Guardian: Over 170 Years After Engels, Britain is Still a Country That Murders Its Poor.

Republicans make it standard practice to undermine civil government and honesty in order to get their way. They have been doing this for decades, and it gets worse over time.

A few notes are required:

• I won't take US intelligence's word that the email leaks of the Democratic National Committee were arranged by Russia — though that may have happened.

Whoever was behind those leaks, what matters most is that they served the public by demonstrating how the DNC had sabotaged Sanders' campaign in favor of Clinton.

• It should be noticed that most Montana voters had already voted when Gianforte attacked reporter Ben Jacobs. Also, Gianforte apologized and pled guilty.

However, other Republicans alluded to the attack by inciting more violence.

• ALEC does not "bypass" state legislatures. Rather, it helps corporations organize legislators and sometimes to buy their votes.

• Republicans recently banned using the term "climate change", but 15 years ago they told government employees to say "climate change" instead of the clearer and more concrete "global warming".