In states where judges are elected directly, billionaires can stack the courts.

This avenue for corruption has existed for a long time. It doesn't take billions to sway a judgeship election.

Israel is massively accelerating colonization of Palestinian territory.

I have for years supported boycott of products of these colonies, but these developments are making me consider taking a stronger position.

A prisoner in Texas was on the verge of dying of malnutrition, before someone attacked and killed him.

Teaching girls they are inferior starts very young.

Protesters are setting up camps to stop the Sabal pipeline in Florida.

They focus on the danger of polluting the area's rivers and lakes, but that's the least of the worries. If we burn the gas that will be shipped through that pipeline, those rivers and lakes won't exist, because the land will become part of the Atlantic Ocean.