The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is proposing limits on "payday loans" (short-term loans with high interest rates), but the rules have loopholes which loan companies will use.

Some states have entirely banned these loans, with good effect. Research finds that people who can't get payday loans general reduce their spending instead -- whereas paying the high interest of payday loans would make them reduce their spending a lot more, over time.

A bad Supreme Court decision gave US thugs near-impunity; all they had to claim, to get away with any violent actions, was that they felt threatened, and get some other thugs to say it was reasonable to feel threatened.

Money is pouring into Super PACs via "ghost corporations" that disguise where the money is coming from.

Obama will do anything to impose the TPP, and businesses are running astroturf campaigns to try to elect legislators in favor of it.

The Palestinian-led boycott/divestment/sanctions movement cannot hurt Israel directly. What it can do is puncture the myths Israel uses to obtain world support for the occupation.