US citizens: Support the bill to increase social security benefits.

Student Debt and the Crushing of the American Dream.

Education is one of the things the US needs to support more by taxing the rich and the companies more.

China is closing the microblog accounts of influential people who have posted criticism.

Murong Xuecun, one of them, writes about what it is like to be "reincarnated" on the Internet.

Israel demolished an "unrecognized" traditional Bedouin village in the Negev, for the 15th time.

Arab neighborhoods formally included in Jerusalem, although outside the annexation wall, have to pay the same taxes as the rest of the city, but they don't get vital services such as sewers or garbage collection.

It reminds me of the way Chicago treated minority areas until Mayor Washington.