Virginia can't afford school buildings — its funds are offered to Amazon. Teachers plan to strike, and will make Amazon one of the demands.

Bolsonaro just gave an order to allow Brazilians to own guns and keep them at home. Women are afraid their husbands will shoot them.

Right-wing supporters of Bolsonaro make the usual right-wing argument that guns will enable people to protect themselves. Experience shows that this doesn't work: rather, having a gun in your home puts you in more danger.

For protection against someone who lives in your house, who might have per own gun, your gun is almost useless. To use it for this, you'd need the experience and honed sharp thinking of Travis McGee or James Bond, both of whom are fictional characters. I don't know whether any real people really have that.

Sea Shepherd is acting as Liberia's coast guard and putting a stop to illegal fishing.

Illegal fishing is not just a matter of who gets to fish where. It is also a matter of preventing overfishing, and the use of fishing methods that destroy the marine environment.

When witnesses speak in black American dialects, Court reporters and juries frequently misunderstand what they said.

The two 2020 presidential candidates that plutocrats really hate are Sanders and Warren.

I have confidence that both of them will thwart the plutocrats, but Sanders is better on a range of other progressive issues.

Warren says that the CEO of Wells Fargo should be fired; he has been in charge of the bank's operations for many years and has the responsibility for the various frauds the bank has committed.