Putting a "means test" on the Child Tax Credit is a tool to ruin it — an excuse to exclude some poor people or make it inadequate.

Ecuador's constitutional court rejected President Moreno's effort to permit oil drilling in a protected indigenous territory.

This is a victory for civilization, whose survival depends on keeping that oil in the ground, as well as for the inhabitants of that region, who might be poisoned by local pollution.

President Lenín Moreno is the one who forced Julian Assange into British captivity. Among his first acts after being elected was to make a surprise military deal with the US.

Brown University faculty voted not to approve a planned new institute, which could be a path for Koch's right-wing funding to influence the university.

Jesse Jackson: *Time for the DOJ to Get Much More Aggressive on [defending] Voting Rights.*

*Protecting wildlife to stop viruses jumping to humans would save far more than it costs, analysis shows.*