If biometric tests are developed to detect sleepiness, and they are used to stop professional drivers from driving, the financial loss from being stopped occasionally must fall on the companies they work for, or on the state — not on the individual drivers.

This will lead us to a fight like the current one over sick days for train operator workers.

Warning: increase in US export of liquid fossil methane threatens to wreck efforts to avoid global climate disaster.

*US proposes rules requiring airlines to compensate passengers for flight delays.*

Flight delays and cancellations can't always be avoided. But the problems they cause will be spread a lot more fairly with these compensations.

In addition, in 2020 airlines often scheduled flights and cancelled them, leading to suspicions that they were expecting to cancel those flights when they announced them. With compensation requirements like this, they would not do that.

How Americans and American cities subsidize the private jets of the super-rich.

We effectively subsidize lots of other things for them too, mainly by charging them far too little tax. They pay a lower fraction of their income in tax than most Americans. It is fair for them to pay a much higher fraction, because they can cope with that share of the country's needs.

Hong Kong is punishing people who emigrate to Britain by denying access to their savings and pension funds in Hong Kong banks.

The changed regulation would require them to return to Hong Kong to get new ID cards, which would not be safe at all.