Mexican popular militias try to suppress gangster murders where the state is no use.

US citizens: tell the US government not to approve oil drilling in the Chukchi Sea.

US citizens: call on the FERC to stop rubber-stamping oil and gas pipelines and other dangerous fossil fuel infrastructure.

A Chinese journalist confessed to making up stories about corruption, saying he was bribed to write them.

Next will he confess to making up false confessions?

Film production in LA is disappearing as other places lure it away by offering tax breaks.

Cutting taxes to win business away from other jurisdictions is a form of "beggar thy neighbor": businesses play states and countries against each other to the detriment of all of them. Plutocrats' pet politicians might call this outcome success, but those that are loyal to their country should instead propose a treaty to ban competing via tax breaks.

France refuses to play this fool's game.