The business campaign to privatize public education has global reach.

School vouchers to undermine public schools used to be proposed for poor children, but now they are going where the money is.

Some of the regulations that creditors are imposing on Greece will make for more production efficiency, at the expense of less local production, less employment, and less local control.

Efficiency is a mistaken goal when the benefit goes to the rich.

Arguing that advertising is a form of pollution and that would-be advertisers should be required to pay people for their attention.

It would be hard to apply such a rule to disguised forms of paid publicity, such as product placement. But it could be applied in some fields.

I am good at disregarding ads and using my time in another way, so I am not bothered much by the ads themselves. What I really object to is the surveillance that is behind many kinds of ads today.

Everyone: Call on the New York Times not to publish smears against J Street for supporting the nuclear deal with Iran.

US citizens: Call on the prosecutor to drop charges against Bree Newsome, who took down the confederate flag that formerly was flown at the South Carolina state house.