Bernie Sanders Diehards React to DNC Speech: 'He convinced none of us'.

This is because we understand what Clinton is, and we have rejected "lesser evil" voting. It leads over time to worse and worse evils.

Antwon Golatte has got the beginnings of justice: an investigation ruled that the Chicago thugs who shot him had no justification for doing so.

This cannot fix the irreparable nerve damage caused by their bullets.

What now? How to stop more thugs from doing the same thing in the future?

The Republican convention speakers include Koch-sponsored politicians, and the platform is full of things the Koch brothers want.

US border agents tried to confiscate the portable phone of a Wall Street Journal reporter. She managed to convince them it would make too much of a stink, and they backed off.

The DHS has enormous power to intrude into the lives of Americans that live within 100 miles of a border, which is nearly everyone.

It uses this power on only a small fraction of the people who are vulnerable to it, but the arbitrariness is still a bad thing.

Some countries, including the US and UK, do not convert economic growth into increased wellbeing for citizens.

One might propose that this is because the increase in income goes mainly to people too rich to gain any wellbeing from it.