The morale problem with the US ICBM corps is not just a matter of details. It comes from the nature of its activity.

Conservatives have political control of the English-speaking world because the traditional left parties have lost the spirit to disagree with their assumptions.

In the US, rigging elections through voter-suppression and gerrymandering help them do it.

British spying on journalists and lawyers directly threatens Americans and people in other countries.

US citizens: call on Obama to respect journalists and journalism.

Fining the unemployed in the UK is not pushing them to get jobs, only making them dependent on food banks.

Raising the minimum wage, and abolishing zero-hours contracts, would circulate more money among the poor and thus create more jobs. That would get these people working.