US citizens: call on the Federal Trade Commission to block the merger of Bristol-Myers Squibb with Celgene.

The name of the first of those companies shows that too many mergers have already been permitted.

US citizens: call on the Democratic National Committee to hold a climate debate.

If you sign, please spread the word!

Republicans in the Senate are considering rules changes so that they can fill all vacancies in federal judgeships before the end of 2020.

For years they rejected all Obama's judicial nominees, without even considering their qualifications, so they would get a chance to appoint right-wing extremists now.

An unlicensed prison — oops, "shelter" — holds 1600 teenagers that entered the US without their families. They are forbidden to talk to the press, they are punished if they touch each other in any way, and they are used as bait to catch and deport their relatives.

About the nature of a republic and its constitution — including the unwritten constitution as well as the written one, loyalty to the common good, and avoidance of excesses of wealth.