In the UK, sentences for crimes are getting longer, but this has not had any effect on the likelihood of committing another crime.

High-pressure schooling, pushing children into tutoring, tends to hurt the children while giving additional advantage to those with the richest parents.

If the tutoring is a temporary attempt to make up for time lost while schools were closed or remote, it may disappear of its own accord. But if it continues, I think it may be a reflection of too much competitiveness in society -- a consequence of the large fraction of people that nowadays are poor.

Canadian national thugs arrested anti-pipeline protesters and two journalists who were with them.

People demand that the UK government publish the algorithm by which it decides whom to accuse of welfare fraud.

Most independent US retailers will shut their web sites on Friday to protest "black friday" and Amazon.