US business executives intend to make sure that workers don't get much in the way of raises despite full employment.

This means that workers must organize — through unions, or through laws — so that employers can't do this.

The US is pioneering a new kind of poverty, where most people's income is large compared with ordinary poor countries, but the cost of living is so high that life for most people is walking on a knife edge.

A hundred years ago, poor people in the US made very little money, but they could live on very little money. To Kill a Mockingbird refers to a schoolchild that couldn't accept a loan of a few cents because his family wouldn't be able to repay it. But they did not die from this. They evidently lived in a house they owned and didn't have to buy very much.

The equivalent purchasing power today might be ten dollars. Anyone in the US today that never had ten dollars would die.

UK universities must now take attendance of foreign students so as to help deport them if they don't come to class. Foreign professors are likely to get deported if they go on strike.

This means that oppressing foreign visitors helps oppress Britons.

After 30 years of a life sentence for possession of a lot of cocaine, under a law repealed 20 years ago, Rick Wershe has a chance at resentencing.

After Turkey conquered the Afrin region of Syria, and many Kurds fled, Turkey settled Arabs in their homes.