Special school programs help the children of US Hispanics learn Spanish. Without this help, Hispanic children would mostly learn only English.

The "Spanglish" that some Hispanics speak together consists, in many cases, of English plus whatever Spanish words they know. They do this to feel Hispanic despite the fact that they don't speak Spanish well enough to use that with each other.

A Guaranteed Jobs-for-All Program Is Gaining Traction Among 2020 Democratic Hopefuls.

The policy, "if you don't work, you can't eat, get medical treatment, or have a place to live," would make sense for able-bodied people in an imaginary world where any of them could get a full-time job with decent pay, just by asking. This policy would give us such a world.

Students that pay huge sums for college demand good grades, never mind the quality of their work.

Varoufakis compares Greece to a "debtor's prison" and calls for democratizing the EU.

He points out that the right-wing authoritarians that have taken power in Hungary and Poland, and have undermined democracy to eliminate resistance, get their strength from despair about the EU's plutocracy.

Converting a valley in Argentina to soybeans led to the sudden emergence of a new river.