Immigrant rights defenders welcome Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden's choice to head the Department of Harshness and Sadism.

If we are really fortunate, we will have to call the department some other name.

Retail workers, called "heroes" by stingy employers, demand a raise in proportion to their employers' rising profits.

Bertelsmann, which includes one of the major recorded music empires, is buying publishing companies and will soon control 1/3 of the US book market.

In addition to the usual dangers of too few competitors with too much power and lobbying strength, concentration in book publishing facilitates censorship by bullying. Here's an example.

I don't need to agree with Peterson's book, or know what views it advocates, to consider it dangerous to a free society for bullies to be able to prevent the publication of a book because they don't like it.

No company should be allowed to have even 10% of the book publishing market. Or the book sales market (down with Amazon!). Perhaps 5% is the bigger than we should tolerate.

French thugs broke up a refugees camp in an important square in Paris, and in the process attacked people with violence that outraged the minister in charge of police.

*Victoria's electric vehicle tax could reduce clean car use by 25% [in 2050], researcher says.*

The idea that petroleum-burning cars will still be sold in 2050 shows the total inadequacy of Australia's climate plans, and the absurd idea of this tax reflects the fundamental unwillingness to do what is needed.