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Economist Robert Reich explains the significance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. (photo: YouTube)

https://readersupportednews.org/video/4-video/28379-robert-reich-the-worst-trade-deal-you-never-heard-of

Boone writes: "Inmate advocates worry that a proposal to reduce the financial penalties for states that don't comply with a 2003 federal law aimed at eliminating rape behind bars will severely da...

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/27913-a-look-at-the-problem-of-rape-in-us-prisons

McCormick writes: "There's no shortage of statistics to show that Congress no longer reflects the demographics of the nation it represents. That's especially true when it comes to personal financ...

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/27909-at-least-six-millionaires-to-take-senate-oaths-today

Engelhardt writes: "Official Washington has, that is, invented a system so dumb, so extreme, so fundamentalist, and so deeply entrenched in our world that changing it will surely prove a stunning...

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27908-a-self-perpetuating-machine-for-american-insecurity

Pierce writes: "I was spending a quiet Sunday on a plane to Dallas, reading this lovely WaPo piece about how the new Republican-majority Congress, which will open the Reign of the Morons II this ...

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27907-focus-the-congress-is-revolting

Cockburn writes: "Islamic State (Isis) will remain at the centre of the escalating crisis in the Middle East this year as it was in 2014. The territories it conquered in a series of lightning cam...

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27906-focus-the-west-is-getting-war-on-isis-wrong

Kucinich writes: "When anyone of us resolves toward self-improvement, it can impact the lives of those we love." Dennis Kucinich is considered one of the most progressive U.S. senators of his t...

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27860-new-years-resolution-for-america-body-title

Cole writes: "If the International Criminal Court takes up Israeli government actions in the occupied Palestinian territories, it could well find specific officials guilty of breaches of the Rome...

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27859-what-would-happen-if-the-intl-criminal-court-indicted-israels-netanyahu

Wyden writes: "Most prominently, James Comey, the FBI director, is lobbying Congress to require that electronics manufacturers create intentional security holes - so-called back doors - that woul...

https://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/27858-stop-fbi-backdoors-for-tech-products

Excerpt: "Republican senators poised to lead major committees when the GOP takes charge are intent on pushing back many of President Barack Obama's policies, setting up potential showdowns over e...

https://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/27857-new-senate-gop-chairmen-aim-to-undo-obamas-policies