US taxes have pushed 7 million low-paid adults down into or further down below the poverty line.

The adults who are vulnerable to this are those who do not have custody of any children.

If anyone asks, "How could we pay for these tax cuts", it's simple: tax the rich more, and tax companies more.

A bill to make US intelligence agencies publish their budgets might provide leverage to reduce those budgets.

It appears that Russian army units, pretending not to be such, are capturing cities in eastern Ukraine.

They seem to have some support from the local civilians, but there is no way of telling how many civilians do not support them; those people are facing powerful intimidation now.

The UK national health service pays a data broker to hand out forms — and ask new mothers (still recuperating in hospital) for personal data while they're at it.

These are the sorts of things that teach children that "everyone and everything is for sale, all the time, and there's nothing that shouldn't be for sale".

I think it was a terrible mistake for US cities to sell the names of stadiums as a form of advertising, because that was a very loud statement that "everything is for sale". Any time you're thinking of letting companies buy something that is public, it means you're not taxing them enough.

Egyptian dissidents, imprisoned without trial, say that thugs raped them in prison.