The mainstream media cover the split in the Democratic Party from the plutocratist side, using commentators that are disconnected from most Americans' difficult lives and needs.

US companies are imposing repressive conditions on millions of American workers, restricting and censoring them even while not at work.

(satire) … advisors to Donald Trump’s attorney general pick William Barr reportedly instructed him Monday to avoid referring to the president as “my liege” during his confirmation hearing.

When foreign workers visit the UK to work as domestic servants, their employers rob and abuse them, knowing that they are desperate.

The 6-month visa period is a protection for domestic workers: it means that at least every 6 months they have a chance to speak to an official about abusive employers. That makes it harder for employers to keep them locked up for years, effectively as slaves. But this doesn't eliminate the problem.

The government could prevent wage theft too, by making employers send workers' pay to the government, which would then remit it directly to the worker's family.

Nonetheless, their situation would be dire if they don't dare lose their job.

In ordinary circumstances, it would be a foolish risk to take a job as a domestic servant in a country that would deport you if you quit. These women do it because they are desperate.

So the deeper question is, why are these women desperate? The article says it is because they have children that they cannot afford to raise.

We can try to stop specific injustices against them, and we should; but when overreproduction pressures people into making a desperate bet, inevitably some of them will lose. The long-term solution to these abuses is to reduce the birth rate.

US insurance companies and clinics are pooling data to help Pharma companies market expensive drugs.