The photographs that documented the poverty of the Great Depression, and consequent suffering, were carefully selected, rejecting many of the most painful.

Today's plutocracy, and global heating, are likely to push most people into even worse poverty.

When Jewish Americans Uphold Occupation, It Corrodes Our Souls.

It is hard to eliminate homelessness by taxing companies for their employees.

One cause of the shortage of housing in US cities is zoning, which prevents the construction of a lot more housing.

It needs to be mentioned that the practice of buying luxury housing purely to resell it years later, and leaving it empty in the mean time, is also responsible in some expensive cities. That would be easy to stop with a large additional tax on residential space that isn't anyone's primary residence.

We need to tax companies such as Amazon more — a lot more. However, taxation per employee creates a perverse incentive for companies to use more automation and reduce the number of employees. They can also threaten to move jobs to where they pay less tax.

I think we should eliminate all payroll taxes, including those for social security and medicare. We should raise money for those programs, and other things, by taxing businesses on their income, regardless of their number of employees, and regardless of which country they notionally assign that income to.

However, it is hard for a city to enact a tax of that kind and make it effective. It needs to be done at a national level.

The troll has arrogantly slapped everyone in Gaza in the face.

I don't think it is correct to say that the troll has "jettisoned any chance of peace", because Netanyahu did that years ago. As Uri Avnery reported, Netanyahu kept negotiations going as a sham, while setting impossible preconditions so that they could not succeed, and Obama tacitly accepted that.

Rather, what the troll has now done is give Israel carte blanche for atrocities.

Rep. Hoyer, Democrat, endorsed Israel's massacre of protesters, and its pretense that this was a legitimate act of military defense against a military attack.

A siege is an act of war; therefore, by the usual standards, a military thrust by Gaza or its allies aimed at breaking the siege would be a legitimate act of defense.

However, protests by Gazans on the territory of Gaza are not a military act of any kind. Killing protesters is not legitimate war, it is a war crime.

This is the same Hoyer that has been working against progressive Democratic candidates.