Many Americans are so overloaded that they can't afford to stop buying from Amazon. In other words, it is a trap that pushes many Americans into poverty while giving them a little help in coping with that poverty.

If we provide working people with an adequate standard of living, they could afford to escape.

The center-right Democrat that was elected as head of the Democratic House caucus chair is supported by a campaign of rich people that want to break teachers' unions and privatize public schools.

An Indian woman who won a suit for women to be allowed to enter a temple has been arrested for posting a video in which her thigh was visible.

This is an extreme level of toxic prudery. It doesn't usually reach that level in the US, but it is toxic anyway. It is often associated with religiosity.

We should all get used to appearing naked in public, and then the problem will disappear. So will revenge porn.

The one black Republican senator blocked the nomination of Thomas Farr as a federal judge.

Version 2 of NAFTA has some improvements.

I wonder what new nastiness it might have, though Can anyone find out? Has someone checked the area of copyrights?