Philip Coleman was lying on a cot in jail when Chicago thugs came into his sell and repeatedly tased him. Coleman died shortly after.

Gun killings in the US today are running at half the rate of 20 years ago. Americans need not feel terrified of being shot.

Although the total death rate from shooting is going down, the death rate from multiple shooting incidents is rising. Common sense gun control measures can't make multiple shooting impossible, but could reduce how often they happen.

Also, prohibiting large magazines nationwide would eventually make them scarce. That would reduce, in many cases, the number that a shooter can succeed in killing.

A danger from Trump is that he makes serious bigots seem within the range of normal views.

Humanity must invest 7 trillion dollars a year to avoid global heating disaster.

That is 20 times what we invested in this in 2014.

Fortunately, we can get most of that 7 trillion by taking it from investment in fossil fuel use.

Sanders told reporters not to neglect US poverty and injustice out of obsession with how to deal with PISSI.