A push for solar energy could create 50,000 good jobs in Virginia. I suppose every state would get similar results.

But we have to install more than just solar generation. We need government funding for batteries, too. A multi-year government program to buy 10 million dollars of batteries each year would accelerate progress in batteries.

Oxfam has decided to help Puerto Rico, since the US government is not doing a great job of that.

Professional "guardians" prey on vulnerable old Americans, making them wards of the court through procedures rigged against them, cutting them off from their relatives and trashing their souvenirs, and get the profit of selling off their property.

Congress is already working on the Republicans' cuts in programs that help the non-rich, to make up for their planned tax cut for the rich.

SCROTUS couldn't repeal American's medical care, so they plan to eliminate a lot of it through budget cuts.

One purported definition of antisemitism includes an example that doesn't belong: it claims that comparing Israel's treatment of Palestinians to the behavior of Nazis towards Jews is "antisemitism".

Two Jews who felt the brunt of Nazi antisemitism as children in Germany make this comparison. One is Uri Avnery, founder of Gush Shalom. The other is Marika Sherwood, who faced censorship just recently when she tried to say this at Manchester University.