There is only one global civilization nowadays, and differences between groups fall in the gaps between the many areas of near universal agreement.

Catholic Herald published an article about "god's love" and declined to mention that the author was a high official responsible for sending Abdel Hakim Belhaj and his wife to Libya for Qadhafi's men to torture.

Then it refused to publish an article by Belhaj that asks for the author to understand and apologize.

The reason toilets in many BART stations are closed is paranoia about terrorism.

It may be true, to some small degree, that the toilets are a security risk. But there must be thousands of such small risks, and it is folly to pay any real price to eliminate one of them. Thus, while I am glad BART has found a way to convince itself that it has made the toilets "safe", it made a mistake shutting them at all.

North Dakota thugs want to arrest Jill Stein for spraying graffiti on a bulldozer as part of a protest against the new pipeline.

No sign that they want to arrest the private security guards that used dogs and pepper spray to attack protesters. These "laws" are just instruments for plutocracy. Nothing here about democracy.

Clinton is making it very clear that there is nothing progressive about her.

Some of us never expected anything different of her. We should learn to reject right-wing Democrats the way we reject Republicans. You can't build democracy and give people in general a good life if your main goal contradicts that.