A US appeals court ruled that the NSA's mass collection of phone call records is illegal, not authorized by the PAT RIOT Act.

More court procedure is required before the NSA may be ordered to stop. And only a future Snowden will tell us whether the NSA really did stop. If it instead invented another pretext, only a future Snowden will enable us to find out about it and sue again.

Keep in mind that there are many systems of massive surveillance. To make journalism and democracy safe, we must curb allof them.

The US still has not corrected the policies that permitted banksters to cause the 2008 financial crash.

This is demonstrates the extent of banksters' control over the US government. They don't have total power over it, but they have far too much.

Senator Sanders introduced a bill to require breaking up "too big to fail" banks into smaller pieces.

I think a variant of my progressive tax proposal would do a better job since it would induce them to split up without requiring the government to take action on each one.

The Department of Transportation decided to allow current oil tank cars to be used on railroads for 8 more years, even though they continue to catch fire in derailments.

Science explains why the right-wing lie machine works: the only effective way to correct a false rumor is by someone perceived to be on the same political side.