Wage stagnation in the US is the result of policy decisions expressed in laws, not mysterious unchangeable economic "laws."

US citizens: support the Freedom to Move Act, which would fund better and cheaper public transportation.

US citizens: call on the Senate not to confirm Rahm Emanual as ambassador.

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Qatar arrested a blogger who writes about the life of migrant workers there, and is holding him secretly, incommunicado.

In the UK, a creditor can easily make it impossible for a debtor to rent a place to live. That is not an officially mandated consequence, but that is what results in practice.

Perhaps it is still possible to pay to use a room in someone else's apartment.