(satire) Financial advisors recommend Americans spend one evening ripping apart … their homes each week in search of hidden cash, jewelry, or other valuables.

It's about as effective as anything else you can do, as long as rich rule.

American Democracy Is in Crisis, And Not Just Because of Trump.

There are points in the US Constitution that could be improved based on practical experience. Alas, to hold a new constitutional convention would make things worse. Right-wingers want one, because they expect they could dominate it and eliminate protection for human rights.

Women fear when men whistle at them because occasionally one of those men attacks them physically.

I can understand how this danger teaches women to react to whistling with fear. It is considerate not to whistle. It does not follow that whistling is wrong.

That a fraction of people that do A also do B, where B is wrong, does not imply that A is wrong. It would be unjust to criminalize whistling because of what a small fraction of whistling men go on to do.

I wonder, though: if we could end misogynist violence against women on the street, would women cease to feel frightened by whistling?

Nobel Peace Prize winners call on California Governor Brown to move California completely to renewable energy.

The UK separates immigrant parents from their babies, hundreds of them per year, as part of its policy of intentional hostility.

The UK owes compensation to legal residents deported or threatened due to its error-prone and catch-22 immigration practices. It drags its feet to pressure them to sign gag agreements.