Brazil's president Rousseff has proposed transport improvements and other reforms to try to satisfy the protesters.

Almost 1/3 of the campaign funds in US elections now come from the richest .01% of Americans.

And this is without considering all the corporate money allowed by the Corporations United decision; a large fraction of that is surely under these people's control too.

The EU has made provisions for future bank bailouts to be done at the expense of the banks.

This is how it should be, but a proper system also requires (1) making sure that no bank can get too big, and (2) limiting the ways they deal with each other so that failure of one bank can't pull down other banks.

Texas continues eagerly executing people even though some of the people executed were almost certainly innocent.

US citizens: call for repeal of the dangerous parts of the PAT RIOT Act.