"Wage theft is the rule, not the exception, for low-wage workers." In the US, it adds up to 15 billion dollars per year, stolen from the people who can least afford to lose it.

The UK government has banned protests in an ancient forest scheduled to be cut down to build a train line.

In general I support high-speed trains. They help replace air travel with something much more efficient (as well as pleasant). But the UK needs to get rid of the laws that make it so easy to destroy forests, and so easy to ban protests.

Restoration of electric power in Puerto Rico is held up because subcontractors fail to do their work.

I urge Puerto Ricans to do everything possible to convince potential buyers to refuse to buy its power grid. The less it is sold for, the less it will be necessary to pay to seize it back.

Lawsuits are blocking Republican sabotage of environmental protection.

The US immigration thugs are pushing for more and more spying on everyone.

Whatever they get, other agencies will get. Eventually the fourth amendment will be effectively a no-op.