The trial of the libel suit against Elon Musk exemplifies how billionaires have made themselves into a legally privileged class — not entirely above the law, but treated with privileges.

Compare, for instance, how Bill Gates was able to make US schools twist education around a standardized test.

Oakland, California, has raised taxes and spent them on gang rehabilitation programs that have reduced murders by 30%.

*Populists understand the power of human emotion. Europe’s liberals need to grasp it, too.*

I think that a passionate defense of liberal democracy must also be compassionate towards the millions that have been deprived by the plutocracy that has manipulated it for its own gain. In other words, we must defend liberal democracy as a platform for the many to defeat the plutocrats with.

*Reach ‘peak meat’ by 2030 to tackle climate crisis, say scientists.*

*Americans take fish antibiotics because it's cheaper than a visit to the doctor.*

It is bad for society as a whole when people people get antibiotics on their own and use them without seeing a doctor. They are likely to use antibiotics when they shouldn't be used. That tends to promote antibiotic resistance.

Medicare for All would avoid this problem by making it easy and cheap to see a doctor and cheap to fill the prescription.