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Our postal service can deliver the sustainable infrastructure of the next economy: postal banking that finances green energy, services for seniors, farm-to-table food delivery, coast-to-coast charging stations for electric cars, and much more... An equitable, climate-friendly economy is in sight. Our post office can deliver it.

Saudi Arabia’s relentless war in Yemen is a destructive failure. The U.S.-backed military intervention that began one year ago has killed an estimated 6,400 people, half of them civilians, injured 30,000, and displaced 2.5 million. According to the UN, 80 percent of the population (20 million people) is now in need of some form of aid. This week the Saudis agreed to a cease fire and peace talks, but will the Obama Administration press them to end the carnage?

See Something, Say Something: No to Bigotry. Tracy Chapman | Talkin' bout a Revolution. Sanders 'Puts a Bird on It.' John Oliver: Border Wall. Republican Tax Plan.

Younger Cuban Americans are radically departing from the political views of their elders

The lives of both old and young, as they are now lived, are different. Their pasts are different, and so are their prospects.

If either Trump or Cruz is elected president, we could see the largest redistribution in American history from the poor and middle-class of America to the rich.