Several people were killed when a Cambodian shoe factory collapsed.

They were killed by psychopaths (corporations). Americans should cease their inordinate preoccupation with a comparatively small killing in Boston, which is unlikely to be repeated, and focus on these bigger killings which we know will be repeated.

US citizens: Support the bill to increase social security benefits.

Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream.

Education is one of the things the US needs to support more by taxing the rich and the companies more.

China is closing the microblog accounts of influential people who have posted criticism.

Murong Xuecun, one of them, writes about what it is like to be "reincarnated" on the Internet.

Israel demolished an "unrecognized" traditional Bedouin village in the Negev, for the 15th time.