When a thug decides you're armed and dangerous, and you're not, there is literally nothing you can do to assure your safety.

Open letter from economists to the U.S. Congress, published by the Sanders Institute.

Atlanta Targets Good Samaritans Sharing Food with Homeless.

Progressives must resist the pressure to criticize the tax attacks about increasing the deficit or the debt.

Glenn Greenwald: CNN published an incorrect story about an email that apparently indicated Wikileaks secretly offered DNC leaks to the bully's campaign. It appeared that way because CNN had the wrong date for the email.

Greenwald says that CNN should publish who told it about the email and gave it the wrong date, and reports that several news reports criticizing Russia or Putin appear to have been planted and false.

I saw some of those stories, and didn't know they were false — I have no practical way to check that — but I felt they were drawing big conclusions from small evidence, or exaggerating the significance of what was known. So I did not post about them.