US citizens: call on the Senate to hold a fair impeachment trial.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Carlos Ghosn said he escaped from Japan because he was likely to remain in jail for years unless he confessed.

It's true that Japan does this to accused people. That doesn't imply he isn't guilty, but he might not get a fair trial.

Many non-rich defendants in the US face a similar unfairness due to the bail system and they are often effectively compelled to plead guilty.

India's unions held a 24-hour general strike in protest against Modi's policies that prioritize the rich over workers.

A new form of gentrification is filling San Francisco with empty storefronts. Perhaps empty condos. too. Landlords would rather have no tenant than a rent lower than their wildest dreams.

This calls for a heavy tax on housing units that are not anyone's primary residence. This may be blocked in California by the tax-limiting initiative adopted in the 1980s.

70% of people in one zone Detroit are black, and polluting industries have concentrated there. Life expectancy there is 10 or 15 years less than in the suburbs.

The residents of "Cancer Alley" in Louisiana have finally got some attention from their congresscritter, a thoroughly plutocratist "new Democrat".