3% of the population of the UK have been infected with Covid-19 this month.

DeMentis is having ineligible Florida voters arrested as a political show.

Those people, convicted of felonies, registered and voted because state officials told them — erroneously — that they were allowed to do so.

DeMentis knows they will be convicted of a crime for following officials' advice. Indeed, one's case has already been dismissed. But this may suffice as political grandstanding and make right-wing haters feel vicariously powerful.

Stiglitz: the west must adjust its economy to meet the needs of war.

One adjustment is to impose a windfall profits tax.

He advocates a nonlinear price scheme for electricity. The first 90% of the electricity you used last year, you can buy at last year's price, the next 20% you can by at 1.5 times that price, and any more beyond that you would buy at a price based on current conditions.

He also advocates an end to paying farmers to grow less food. (I think this would have to be accompanied by rules to give wildlife a home in farms.)

Dean Baker: the corporate media artificially drum up concern about inflation.

This could be a way to advance Republican candidates, and it could be the work of the same billionaires that fund them.

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