The Israeli army ordered Palestinians to uproot their olive trees because an Israeli colony is being built nearby on their land.

The government says the colony is illegal, but it nonetheless receives government support. The state is trying to have it both ways.

The attacks against Palestinian agriculture proceed constantly, with the tacit support of the Israeli army and state. They get so little attention that Palestinians despair of reporting them.

To force 15,000 Palestinians out of the territory Israel has annexed to Jerusalem, Israel plans to demolish 2000 housing units. Some of them are slated to become parks.

Palestinian journalist Mohammed Abu Khdeir was secretly arrested when returning from Egypt. In Israel it is forbidden to report the arrest.

US school "reform" turns weak evidence into "proof" that their methods work.

In most US states, child care costs more than college.

This may have contributed to the big increase in discouraged workers, as parents find that the costs of going to work leave them with no gain from working.

If it were feasible for these people to work, that would not create jobs for them. Rather, they would appear in the unemployment rate, and thus make the harm done by anti-employment anti-poor policies harder to disguise.

Growing up in poverty can permanently stunt a person, so the US policies that augment child poverty are causing irreparable damage.