New York City's replacement for solitary confinement turns out to be more or less solitary confinement with pepper spray.

Saudi Arabia compassionately released 74-year-old Karl Andree, who had been sentenced to 350 lashes for possession of drugs (specifically, wine).

The US has stopped repressing people for carrying wine, but you can get imprisoned for having other drugs.

On the Verge of the Great Unraveling.

Republican candidates debated why and how to stop American workers from getting a wage.

Trump effectively admitted that globalization driven by business interests imposes poverty on most people. This globalization is not a natural phenomenon; it was imposed by those business interests through bad laws and worse "free trade" treaties. So let's get rid of those laws and treaty.

It is true that wages, and benefits, encourage employers to replace workers with machines. We can reduce this problem by funding Social Security and unemployment benefits from taxes that are independent of employment — taxes that businesses will have to pay even if they replace all workers with machines.

However, we must also block the forms of automation that would put many people out of work, until we establish a universal basic income so that people don't need employment.

In the UK, ever more families are becoming homeless (even though the adults are working), and put into cramped shelters.

In the US, homeless families don't get shelters.