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Two simple changes to U.S. law, both things based in other laws that we already know and like, could solve most of America’s gun violence problem:

The young people see this situation for what it is: Corruption.

This scam has been killing wages and enriching billionaires for decades.

The rich get richer, and the poor will never be able to retire.

There are two bright-red warning lights flashing right now on the dashboard of what’s left of American democracy. While Donald Trump is hyper-aware of both of them, the media and most of our politicians are ignoring them.

Is it time to bring a monarchy to the United States, or time to end one?

President Obama has come right out and said it: "You have to tend to this garden of democracy, otherwise things can fall apart fairly quickly. And we've seen societies where that happens.”

Without network neutrality—the ability of individual citizens to get and share the information they want with a modicum of privacy and anonymity—the American Revolution wouldn’t have happened. Maybe that’s why the Trump administration wants to kill net neutrality now.

Judge Roy Moore, the "Ten Commandments Judge" in Alabama now running for the U.S. Senate, says the controversy he and Fox News have stirred up is about religion.

We were watching the TV at the airline departure area.“Is it a terrorist incident?” Wolf Blitzer asked. Nobody knows, was the apparent answer.