Politics

Understanding how misguided and arguably insane our military priorities and spending are.

“These are matters that concern the people and their franchise and their access to resources.”

One of the best education systems in the world belongs to Finland.  Its constitution makes free education a right. Section 16...

Anne Frank and her family sought refuge in the United States and, like many other Jewish refugees during the time, were denied. Is history repeating itself with the refugees from Syria?

Only a rube thinks that New York is about money and media alone; it is much, much bigger than that.

“All empires end. That is an indisputable fact.” And, “All empires end from within.”

"The future of the [Republican] party is based on a multiethnic, multiracial working class coalition." and that, “...the free market exists to serve our people. Our people don’t exist to serve the free market.”

The poorest among us are being cheated. They're being cheated out of the opportunity to share in the great prosperity to which they and their parents and grandparents all contributed.

If the 2020 U.S. presidential election does become the ‘battle of billionaires’, the real losers will be the country’s working people.

From human rights to existential threats like global warming and the loss of bio-diversity, as well kitchen table issues like income inequality and food security, progressive forces are aligning on the right side of history as they oppose both the global elite and the populist provincialism of far-right groups.