*Rightwing lobbies and dark money funders backing assaults on voting rights.*

To avoid a disorderly (sometimes chaotic) transfer of power to the Taliban would have required negotiating an orderly one. But that would have entailed admitting defeat. For the US, that was unthinkable.

Garment factories in Los Angeles make workers work 60 hours a week, pay them less than the minimum wage, and often steal their wages.

Naturally they exploit unauthorized immigrants, who don't dare report the employer's crimes since they are not allowed to work. But these abusive practices harm all workers.

No surprise that many businesses lobby to keep them going.

*American CEOs make 351 times more than workers. In 1965 it was 15 to one.*

It is a mistake to use "percentage increase" to describe a large change. Instead of saying that average CEO pay increased 1,322 percent since 1978, the clear thing to say is that it has grown by a factor of 14. (To say 14.22 is excess, pointless precision.)

I would guess that this figure does not include everyone that is the CEO of a company, but only large companies. It would be interesting to see what that company was.

I criticize those details but I don't think they are very important. The article demonstrates its point. I support Sanders's economic program cited at the end of the article.

The Taliban carefully planned a strategy to win the war.