Big companies are evading over 2 billion dollars a year of taxes in Australia.

Papua New Guinea, acting as Australia's proxy, is forcing refugees out of the camp where they feel safe. (Originally it was a prison but not any more.) This forces them to live near the natives, who violently hate them.

Some ethicists find excuses to try to ban sex robots.

Until these robots have human levels of mental capacity, they won't offer full emotional relationships of love or friendship. They will provide sex and no more.

People with a healthy imagination won't need these robots because they could use a fantasy instead. Those who can't generate the fantasies on their own would find the robot a useful substitute.

Unless evidence is found that sex robots lead substantial numbers of people to force themselves on others, which there is no clear evidence for, they should not be censored. The other path leads to trying to censor fantasies.

(That article uses the silly idea that people "consume" video recordings. I imagine somebody eating one. Please don't encourage that twisted propaganda term.)

Macron wants to reduce the French deficit at the expense of the poor, through spending cuts, rather than at the expense of the rich, by increasing their taxes.

He also explicitly advocates competing to attract businesses. That generally means allowing them to treat workers worse than in other comparable countries.

The main evil of business-driven globalization, as explained by Naomi Klein in No Logo, is this competition between countries that hurts workers in all countries.

The US has no plan in Afghanistan. This reflects the fact that there is no path to victory there in the absence of fundamental changes in the situation, and they are not likely.

The US can either keep propping up the Afghan government ad infinitem or let it fall.