Voices for Change

“Cuban eye doctors in Jamaica are the only reason why my grandmother didn’t go fully blind in one eye after she got a botched surgery. The work they’ve done for rural and poor Jamaicans is immeasurable.”

Modern economies depend on unpriced ecosystem functions and undervalued care and reproductive labor—essential inputs that are difficult to commodify. This tension helps explain environmental degradation, social strain, and the limits of market systems.

What morally deficient country tolerates blatant wickedness without rising up to avert the next outrage? His re-election was bad enough; tolerance of evil is worse.

When will this march into Trump authoritarianism be stopped by some powerful, fearless leader?

Amidst his escalating attacks on renewable energy and atomic safety, the Trump family’s investments in nuclear fusion live under a bad cloud that threatens us all. 

It was a country enduring a 66-year siege, and a people who, against all odds, continue to build, create, and care for one another.

Now, in its war with Iran, that evolution is reaching its most dangerous phase. 

Meanwhile Schmitt ignores blatant obstruction by Bondi’s DOJ.

To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.

The implication is stark: democracy is not only a constitutional or ideological arrangement; it is fundamentally a fiscal one.