SOME NEWS: * Robert Reich, who has a posse, on how strengthening the middle class will bring more jobs. * Is indefinite solitary confinement torture? * Wow. Things are pretty bad at the postal service . Here's five ways they could reinvent themselves. * The Texas wildfires have been burning for almost 300 days. * Party of No: the ATF hasn't had a permanent director for eight years, because the NRA said so. * Not news: celebrity food brands rate no better than their counterparts. * Interesting: linking many meteorites to a single source? * One scientist's dream of convincing ants that one of them is dead.