Bernie Sanders: Let's wrench power back from the billionaires.

Cornel West: America is spiritually bankrupt. We must fight back together.

Tunisia has announced significant increases in support for the poor, as a response to mass protests.

Israel has used a series of bogus legal excuses to confiscate Palestinians' land. A Palestinian lawyer explains them carefully.

Iran is no longer an implacable enemy of Israel. It has endorsed the Arab peace plan for two states.

Why So Little Empathy and Compassion Within American Culture? The plutocrats, with their systems and their media, systematically deaden those feelings; many of the non-elite internalize specific aspects of this.

I can see some ways in which I have done so.