Biden urged OPEC to increase its oil output to relieve a temporary shortfall of oil, and acknowledged the irony of this.

He's right, in a narrow sense. However, I think the economic harm of capping fossil fuel extraction at the current level would be far less than the harm done by allowing extraction to increase as the market would happen.

An intermediate option would be better if it reduces extraction effectively and soon. Perhaps Biden should have demanded such a deal before asking OPEC to increase extraction.

Every year, Britons march in memory of everyone that died as a prisoner of the British state.

I don't use the word "custody" to describe this.

A US woman went to a hospital's emergency room and waited 7 hours without being seen, so she left. The hospital charged her $700 for that.

Just imagine what they might have charged is someone had actually looked at her problem!

The root of this problem is the structure of the US medical system, which pressures each clinical unit to try to gouge patients. We need to replace it with a national medical system funded by the federal government.

Liberal justices argued in the Supreme Court that the Texas bounty-hunter approach to prohibition would, if allowed to stand, enable any state to wipe out any constitutional right.

*Minneapolis voters reject bid to replace police with public safety department. *

I'm disappointed; this would have made it possible to avoid using armed cops on most instances.