How to Solve the Aid Sector Crisis? Don't Employ Expats.

Governments insist on funding only very large projects, which leads to ever-larger global NGOs, which need global management by expats.

In Brazil, special prisons with no guards rehabilitate the prisoners.

A thug in Houston killed an unarmed, confused man.

Interestingly, this time the killer was black. Clearly he doesn't "hate blacks", but the unconscious racism that quickly assumes that a black man is violent is something everyone learns.

A US electric utility has gone bankrupt, perhaps as a result of focusing on coal and nuclear power.

This won't shut down the coal and nuclear power plants that the company owns. They will be sold off to someone else for less than they were thought to be worth, but the new owner (having invested so little) might find it profitable to keep them running.

McDonald's promised to pay workers $1 above the minimum wage, but it isn't doing what it promised.