What the Robots Are Doing to the Middle Class. The new middle class is smaller and requires a higher level of training.

How Trump's Grift Gave Government to the 0.01 Percent.

Trump's advisors want to privatize indigenous peoples' land in order to deregulate drilling for fossil fuels.

Privatization of tribal lands has been used in the US as a means to take it away. Once an individual, rather than the tribe, can sell the land, desperate poverty is likely to make that happen. The result is that the tribe's members end up just as poor, and without land. And in some cases poisoned by toxic releases from the wells.

It suits Russia to make the West distrust the internet, because Russian elites already did.

If Republicans Want to "Cut Fat", They Might Start at the Pentagon.

For plutocratist politicians, "cut fat from the budget" means "cut spending that goes to the non-rich." Paying businesses to build arms or run prisons never counts as "fat."