Saboteur Zinke plans to allow oil drilling off nearly all US coasts.

Even many Republican politicians are against this.

California is considering getting rid of the bail system, which tends to impoverish poor people, but the bail bonds industry lobbies against that.

Some Motel 6 motels betrayed lots of customers by giving information about them to immigration agents.

I don't think we should have to trust a company with knowing who we are. I am not in danger of being deported from the US, but I could face other forms of danger and mistreatment, just as you could.

The Republicans have a new plan to abolish parts of Indian reservations. First, designate parcels of land as private property of some Indians. Then make them sell it. Hell, it worked before!

A gene therapy treatment, which we can call parzyl, costs almost a million dollars.

There is something sleazy going on with the generic name, "voretigene neparvovec-rzyl". Even to write it is a pain, and as for pronouncing it, should we treat it as English or as Polish? I don't know of any language other than Polish in which "rz" has a meaning.

In effect, the drug theoretically has a generic name, but not in practice. So I suggest calling it "parzyl".