US citizens: call on the Department of Education to stop profiting off of student borrowers.

Louis Allstadt, former VP of Mobil, says fracking is not safe and calls for banning it.

The US minimum wage is too low, but many businesses have created excuses to pay even less.

Cheap chicken in the US comes at the costs of injuries for workers.

In the US, change in regulation supposedly justified by reducing costs of production are misguided in general (unless it is production of something to reduce greenhouse gas emissions). Our problem is not that goods are too expensive, it is that workers are not paid enough.

Fatah and Hamas have agreed to form a unity government and hold elections in Palestine.

Uniting Fatah and Hamas is easier said than done, but it is a prerequisite for democracy in Palestine. It will not be easy to get Hamas to respect democracy, though.

Unification would remove an obstacle to a real peace deal, since it could result in a government with enough support and authority to agree to a deal and implement it. Alas, it is not the only prerequisite. We also need Israel to be ready to make a real peace deal.