Big companies (and one union!) told the Democratic Party to cut down its (rather meager) progressiveness to get donations.

US citizens: call on Bill Clinton to push to let José Álvarez rejoin his family in the US.

Álvarez lived in the US since age 12, without permission. He committed a nonviolent drug crime in 1995, served time in prison, and was released. Then he spent two decades in the US, gainfully employed.

When people who have been in the US just a few years commit serious crimes, I am favor of deporting them, provided it is done reasonably soon after the crime.

But it is an injustice to deport someone with decades of family ties in the US because of a crime decades in the past. It is an injustice to deport any adult who has lived in the US since childhood.

And most of these nonviolent drug crimes should not be crimes anyway.

Nobody should have six children, but that is a different issue and doesn't affect the conclusions on this one.

I am looking for people to help web sites put free licenses on their Javascript code.

Joseph Stiglitz: The Problem with Europe Is the Euro.

That may be the biggest economic problem, but the European Union has another deeper problem: it is not democratic. Fixing or eliminating the euro could end austerity, but as long as the EU is not democratic it will be susceptible to doing new wrongs.

Poland proposes a punishment of years in prison for using the phrase "Polish death camps".

I sympathize with the Polish government's wish to correct the error. Those Nazi death camps were located in Poland, but they were not Polish. However, this method won't be very effective against foreign media outlets, and meanwhile it violates human rights.

I wonder if quoting or describing this law in Poland, supposing it is adopted, would be a violation of the same law.