Los Angeles teachers won a partial victory, including a raise that is not enough to keep up with inflation.

But they also won other benefits for the community, including a plan to limit charter schools.

There needs to be a way for the public to convert charter schools to public schools.

Michael Cohen says he has postponed his testimony to Congress because the bully is making legal threats against his family.

Denying the grandstander the use of Congress for a State of the Union address is very clever way of pressuring him. It denies him something he craves, while not harming anyone else because it has no intrinsic importance.

Meat inspection in the US is inadequate — there are not enough inspectors to do the job. Most plants admit this, while others lie about it.

Now that there is strong public pressure for a universal medical system in the US, the medical profiteers are proposing half-measures to preserve their role.

Four years of Republican attacks on Obama's medical insurance law have driven 7 million Americans out of insurance coverage.

But that's not the worst harm — millions have insurance that fails to cover a lot of the costs, and patients can be randomly screwed with enormous prices.