The recent increases in minimum wage are nice but:

We need more. I wrote this for The Guardian.

In a move that can only be called “no shit:”

Connecticut’s Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said he would sign an executive order that would ban people on the federal terrorism watch list from buying guns in Connecticut. Yes, that still means people under suspicion can still buy guns everywhere else in the country, because no other states have the guts to step up and enact this …

Should Dzhokhar Tsarnaev get the death penalty?

The Boston Marathon bomber was found guilty on all counts by a jury of his peers this week. Guilty, as CNN said, of using weapons of mass destruction, guilty of bombing a place of public use, guilty of conspiracy and aiding and abetting. Three people were killed and more than 260 injured when the bombs …