Proposed mergers, such as Bayer with Monsanto, would increase concentration of the seed supply and other industries related to farming.

Monsanto seems to have too much influence with the EPA's decisions.

Confronting the threat of massive technological unemployment combined with allow plutocratic.

As someone said in a public hearing in Cambridge, some 20 years ago: "If the robots make it, we've gotta take it."

If the "Ferguson effect" is real, what conclusions should we draw?

US blacks have good reason to fear that thugs will kill them and/or frame them. To a lesser extent, so do other Americans. If the thugs want to be trusted, they should start being trustworthy.

In the US, people are jailed as a result of trials in which they had no lawyer.

Often this is for nonpayment of child support.

It is legitimate to make fathers with money provide some of that for their children. It is nonsensical to do this to poor people; they can't pay what they don't have.

The right solution for this problem is (1) to improve the welfare system so that no child has to grow up in poverty, father or no father, and (2) help and encourage people that can't afford to raise children properly to use reliable birth control.

As schools impose "learning management" systems to track what students do, they collect lots of data about students. There is no evidence that this snooping contributes to education, but it is obviously an injustice.

If some sort of snooping ever does contribute to education, the school should leave all the data in a per-student memory which the student can wipe when classes end.