Wells Fargo Bank gave half a million customers automobile insurance without their consent, even without their knowledge. Some of them lost their cars when they missed the payments they didn't properly owe.

When banks do this, it is not through carelessness. It is a clever scheme for cheating customers. Wells Fargo already admitted another such dishonest scheme. Naturally, no banksters were imprisoned for it.

China is making big construction investments in Haiti, along with many other countries.

Maybe this will reduce poverty in those countries, as well as increasing Chinese influence around the world.

Are most married couples soldiering on through misery?

"Perseverance porn" stories, about how someone walks 10 miles to work every day, have the effect of normalizing the big disadvantages from society that make people do hard labor that society should not need.

Palestine's new "cyber crime" law imposes many kinds of censorship, abolishes privacy, and represses freedom of speech on line.

It also bans using VPNs to access banned web sites.