Australia is holding a boatful of asylum seekers in prison on a ship.

The Citibank payment is peanuts compared to what it received in bailout funds.

Washington DC has banned styrofoam containers for food and drinks.

As usual, plastic companies lobbied against this step forward. You would think that some stockholders would be wise enough to say, "People will always want plastic, and we can go along with selling it over a longer period of time to keep our rivers and seas clean." I suspect that the corporation structure systematically leads executives to be extremists: to demand to maximize their profits no matter what the cost to society.

Perhaps some reorganization of the structure of a corporation could alter that tendency. That would a great thing.

Florida's Republicans drew congressional districts illegally to favor Republican candidates, but they hope it is too late to fix the problem for this year.

Abstinence-based sex-non-education is telling lies to keep virgins ill-informed; it puts them in danger.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses described the results of this in 1782, so there is no excuse for ignorance.