In Philadelphia, if the bank doesn't make you homeless, the thugs might try it.

NATO: Part of Solution [in Ukraine] — Or Problem.

I think the question is not quite right. Nato expansion has clearly contributed to provoking Russia, but that doesn't prevent NATO from being useful for resisting Russia. Putin is not an innocent good guy, he is a former KGB officer.

Many journalists have been kidnaped in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Secrecy in many individual cases has hidden the size of the problem.

Mainstream US TV political shows present debates between right-wing pundits that all agree the US should launch all-out war against ISIS.

"Three things that won't defeat Isis are a kneejerk reaction to the videos of western hostages being killed, going back to the old models of dictatorship and airstrikes."

Above all, it is necessary to show Iraqi Sunnis how they can have a government they generally won't feel is their enemy.

Perhaps that requires offering to break up Iraq, so they can have their own government as long as it isn't warlike.

US citizens: if you haven't already, submit a comment to the FCC defending network neutrality.