The head of the World Bank really is a global heating denialist, and it appears he was put in that position by the wrecker precisely to obstruct climate defense. The world needs to oust him.

DeMentis now claims to have sincerely transported immigrants to Martha's Vineyard to help them.

One could ask him, "If you really wanted to help them, why did you give them a false picture of the support they would find there?"

Now that California has passed a law to protect fast-food workers pay and rights, the big fast-food companies want Californians to vote to restore the power to abuse those workers, in the name of low prices.

Britain is ready to reform its broken electoral system, but the conservative leaders in control of the Labour Party refuse to advocate that.

*Corporate greed, not wages, is behind inflation. It's time for price controls.*

Rigid price controls cause a different kind of market distortion. I wonder if there is a way to get a similar effect but less rigid. For instance, what if any increase of X in the price of a product resulted in an additional tex starting at .9X and decreasing linearly over the following year down to .1X, then ending after that year. This might discourage price increases that are not meant to be long-term.