US citizens: sign this petition to support the Bank on Students Loan Fairness Act, which would charge student loans the same interest rate that big banks get.

The UK plans to privatize public defenders, which implies that executives will pressure the lawyers to do a hasty and inadequate job.

The result will be that one company can "represent" you, give you bad advice, then be paid to run the prison they put you in.

More about the censorship order for the 3d-printer gun design.

Fast-food workers' protests spread around the US.

Of course, fast food was never meant to be eaten in the first place. It was meant for fasting, not for eating.

It appears staff in the State Department told UN Ambassador Rice to change her description of the Benghazi attack, so as not to give Republicans ammunition.

I don't see anything wrong here. UN speeches are public statements, and we should expect any government to plan carefully what to say in them. As far as I can tell, the changes were not lies and did not cover up any facts.

It's not as if intelligence agencies had been pressured to misinform the rest of the government, as was done to fabricate an excuse to conquer Iraq.

There are plenty of good reasons to condemn Obama, but you can rely on Republicans to find bad ones.