Stephenie Jimenez got a scolarship to a private school, which offered her a rare opportunity for social mobility. But she recognizes that lots of other people from poor families could be successful with a good public school system.

The Kentucky Derby is complaining that it can't find the workers it needs. It generally hires immigrants for low wages.

The idea of limiting immigration of workers is that businesses will have to hire citizens. If citizens won't accept the job without a higher salary and better working conditions, the businesses will be compelled to improve wages and conditions. That is unpleasant for businesses, and good for the people. But it takes time for the labor market to adjust to that.

Lakhdar Boumediene and Mustafa Ait Idir, formerly prisoners in Guantanamo, write about their torture and their legal cases.

The US imprisoned them without trial, and eventually released them after the Supreme Court ruled they were entitled to demand justice. But that was after 7 years of unjust imprisonment.

The dates suggest that Dubya was unwilling to release them and they were freed only after Obama became president.

The US plans to demand that some visa applicants describe their travel and work history for 15 years — which many people could not possibly answer — as well as demanding to look at their social media accounts.

Doing this at the time of visa application is less cruel than doing it when people enter the US. If you get asked unacceptable prying questions when you apply for the visa, at least you can still cancel your trip without losing the price of intercontinental airplane tickets.

We don't need to pretend that everyone who gets food from food banks is totally admirable. It's a shame to make life so hard that people need to go to food banks.

It's also a shame not to make make alcoholism treatment available to everyone that needs it.