The fight against global heating must target the extraction of fossil fuels, not just their use.

To win this fight, we need some courage. Do you have the courage to say "global heating" instead of the weaker-sounding "global warming" or "climate change"? This won't cost you anything except that a few people may ask why you use that unusual term (and that gives you an opportunity to explain). Can you take this tiny first step?

Thugs in Madison, Wisconsin, entered Tony Robinson's apartment based on an accusation against him, and immediately shot him dead.

Madison's population is very liberal, and even its thugs are liberal, but the city has a big race problem.

American parents, let your children walk home from school — even just once.

There is hardly any danger to your children from random people on the street. It's the plutocrats and fossil fuel companies that are likely to really do so. Not this decade, of course — it will take time for things to get that bad.

A financial transactions tax could provide a lot of revenue to avoid austerity.

I am surprised by the idea of taxing derivatives less. Derivatives can destabilize the whole financial system, so it makes sense to tax them enough to discourage them somewhat.

Later: the explanation is that the tax on derivatives is stated as a fraction of the underlying assets, rather than the value of the derivative itself. Usually the value of the derivative is much less. I wonder, however, whether it is possible to create derivatives whose price includes the price of the asset and whether they would be a loophole.

A call to abolish college fraternities.