The TTIP may imply massive oil export from the US and tar sands oil export from Canada.

In addition to many other bad things, which is why I call it This Treaty Is Plutocratic.

Conservatives and Progressives should be able to agree that work should pay enough that employed people don't need a state subsidy.

One way to help this along is to stop charging the cost of social benefits for employed people to their employers. We should fund it from taxes on income or wealth, taxes which the rich and the businesses would have to pay regardless of how many human beings they employ.

Alas for the article, today's "conservatives" don't sincerely support anything except serving the rich by squeezing the poor.

Republicans in Wisconsin plan to weaken the state's open records law. Perhaps this is to shield the corruption that seems to float around Governor Walker.

Baltimore thugs put a sign inside a van, threatening arrested people with mayhem like that which killed Freddie Gray.

Prominent UK politicians ask Obama to free Shaker Aamer.