Sanders has introduced a bill to increase the estate tax, with a progressive tax rate.

The article mentions closing loopholes as well. I would like to read more about the details of that, because that point is crucial to success of the measure.

A giant cavity has appeared at the bottom of a glacier in Antarctica. It appears that the cavity has developed in a few years, so fast has the ice melted.

UN Expert to Int'l Community: Don't Say You Want a Two-State Solution While Turning Blind Eye to "Engine" of Israeli Occupation.

Several leading Indian dissidents face trumped-up, absurd criminal charges.

Teltumbde is under bail conditions that make it nearly impossible for him to travel even within India. He can only be away from home for up to 18 hours.

He was supposed to speak at the Kerala Literature Festival, which had arranged a way he could come to Calicut (Kozhikode) and speak without being away from home more than 18 hours, but the trip was sabotaged and he could not go there.

EFF: a border wall of surveillance would be as bad as a physical wall.

The surveillance would affect everyone, including US citizens, and could be applied to a zone extending quite far from the actual border.