How capitalists make use of plutocratist politicians and parties to claim most of society's wealth for themselves.

Facebook has suspended one of the cheater's PACs for false advertising.

50 years ago, British companies' money corrupted a UK university. Now, China has the money to suck them into a system of corruption.

Something similar has happened in Australia, and I expect it is happening in the US as well.

Meanwhile, China exercises its tyranny over Chinese students studying abroad.

I would not want universities outside China to exclude Chinese from studying or cut off Chinese labs from research collaboration. But we must make sure they can't get sucked in to the point where they don't dare say no when they must.

Up to 30 million Americans may be evicted by the end of September.

Since there won't be many would-be tenants with money to rent those apartments, some of the landlords may decide they have little to gain my evicting their current tenants. At least, I hope so. But what we need is for a decent government to protect them. And pay their rent, if the landlord is a real person who isn't rich. (Rich landlords should bear the loss of that rent.)

Releasing a vaccine that hasn't been carefully tested can backfire in many ways — depending on how well it actually works.