SCROTUS is planning another tax cut for the personal "small businesses" through which billionaires receive their income.

Five months ago, the UK apologized to Caribbean immigrants who were denied the citizenship rights they were entitled to. Some of them are still forbidden to work in the UK.

ACLU Launches State-by-State Blueprints with Roadmaps for Cutting Incarceration by 50 Percent.

A senate committee passed a bill to end use of gillnets on the US west coast. Gillnets kill many dolphins and sea turtles, as well as other protected species.

Rep. Pelosi (may she be primaried soon) rejects all Democratic proposals that would increase the deficit.

Since the US has an economic boom (limited to the rich), in principle this would be the right time to run a surplus. However, as long as Republicans are enacting huge deficits with useless spending and tax cuts for the rich, there is no reason to be deficit-pure at the expense of the non-rich.