We need to raise revenue (rather than cut vital services) and make the federal tax system more progressive. Ordinary citizens pay sales taxes on the goods they buy, but stock transactions aren't taxed. Michael Lewis has pointed to the dangers in high-frequency trading that is distorting-- and perhaps undermining the stock market. A tax would be a far more effective way to deter HFT than regulation.

Why is the City willing to pay taxpayer dollars to settle a case of serious homophobic slander, and not hold the administrator responsible? He wrote that my partner and I used our pets as" lures" to seduce and infect the local boys with AIDS, so I (Michael) should be ousted from my apartment, and my foreign-born partner (Andre) deported. These malicious letters to my co-op management were copied to ICE, FBI, Precinct 36, IRS, and Homeland Security. The emotional terror this action inflicted upon us is difficult to describe. There are two forensics reports which tie Smolkin to the letters, (one in the office of the Manhattan DA), but the City refuses to act to remove Principal Smolkin.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler is about to sell off more control of the Internet to big corporations like Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon — the same corporations who have a near monopoly over our digital lives and businesses. Americans already pay way too much for way too slow internet service. In many rural and suburban areas, internet access looks the same as it did in the '90s, while profits for these giant companies have never been higher. Now Chairman Wheeler wants to allow big internet providers to charge websites for faster content delivery, setting up a pay to play fast lane. We don’t allow pay to play anywhere else in society — the Internet, the backbone of our current and future economy is no place to start. This means content providers like Netflix will have to pay ransom to internet providers to make their videos available at the fastest speeds. Meanwhile, content from other innovative websites and small businesses who can’t afford to pay will be drowned out. All of us — the Internet consumers — will lose. Sign on now to stand up for real net neutrality and protect the free and open Internet while we still can. Approved by Cole for Congress, http://coleforcongress.com

As college students of SUNY Fredonia we are personally contributing to the waste created by plastic cups from local bars. Help us convince the village of Fredonia to recycle.

Kenya Moore is a bully and a pathological liar! She has caused so much drama on Real Housewives of Atlanta that I am thinking of not watching the show anymore if she continues to be a cast member.

Show your support of Nea's stellar facilitators, who are instrumental in making Nea the wonderful school that it is.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is holding $16 billion in federal funds hostage, because he hates the Affordable Care Act. As a direct result, over 242,000 Louisiana residents are unable to get Medicaid—and are currently without health insurance. But we can let the people of Louisiana decide—63% of whom support Medicaid expansion. Senate Bill 96 would put Medicaid expansion on the November ballot. Sign the petition to the Louisiana state legislature: Let Louisiana vote on Medicaid expansion by voting “yes” on Senate Bill 96.

Duke Energy continues to violate clean water rules and to pollute our state's groundwater and rivers. The resulting coal ash disaster has been mismanaged, showing fundamental flaws in Duke Energy's fiscal and institutional integrity. The Nathan Cummings Foundation and 20 other major investors have called on Duke Energy's board to conduct a prompt internal investigation of the coal ash disaster. The second recent breakthrough was a call to action from both CalPERS, (the California state pension fund), and the New York City Retirement Systems to dismiss the members of Duke Energy’s Regulatory Policy and Oversight Committee. The four board members of this committee have responsibility for environmental compliance, yet they do not have expertise in that field. Moreover, they have failed to live up to their public responsibilities.

One week after a Ku Klux Klan member shot three people dead in an anti-Semitic hate crime, CNN is wondering: "Can the Klan rebrand?"

Barclays is rebranding itself as the "Pioneer of Offshore," pushing its rich corporate clients to use offshore tax havens instead of paying their fair share.

Netflix has an unprecedented library for media streaming and a sophisticated recommendation algorithm. Are we really supposed to believe it doesn't have the resources to improve its closed captioning?

Even though it's against California law, Pier 1 forces pregnant workers to do eight weeks of light duty before making them take months-long unpaid leave.