How Urban Design Perpetuates Racial Inequality -— And What We Can Do About It.

Mexico has altered its definitions of income and poverty so as to look better in published statistics.

This is comparable to how President Reagan changed the US government's definition of unemployment, not to count people who are unemployed and have given up hope of finding work.

Drone attacks (away from battlefields) are murder.

There is one minor point I disagree with. If someone's job is to plan terrorist attacks, I think it is legitimate to presume at any time that he's planning terrorist attacks. But that doesn't affect the overall point.

Increased wealth tends to lead to reduced compassion, and greater willingness to take advantage of other people.

President Kennedy's speech about the danger of nuclear war, in 1963, puts today's presidential candidates to shame.