US blacks still face a big disadvantage in getting jobs and entering the middle class.

The plutocratic parties have a plan for eliminating this disparity: shrink the middle class so nobody has much chance of entering it.

The Egyptian military is investigating Morsi for working with Hamas as the revolution started.

Since the EU decided that cooperation with Israel may not include helping Israel to colonize Palestine, Israel has retaliated by blocking EU projects to help Palestinians.

In effect, Israel is using Palestinians as hostages. Not for the first time.

US citizens: oppose making Larry Summers head of the Federal Reserve Bank.

Drug prohibition kills — not only through the gangs that it fuels, but also by making fairly safe drugs fatal.