Politics

Real change happens on the ground, so where were all the protestors in Cleveland?

We are beginning to show the strains of the global destabilization now evidently underway and, unnerved, we are undoubtedly continuing to damage the future in ways still hard to assess.

Poland offers a frightening example of the right-wing populism sweeping through many nations. Neoliberalism is wrecking economies, creating rage among the working class, devastating cultural institutions and eroding liberal democracy across Europe and in the United States.

Michelle Obama barely mentioned Donald Trump in her speech last night, but kept a focus on unifying the Democratic Party.

Polls show that Americans are more afraid of a terrorist attack than at any other time since 9/11, even though the rate of violent crime has been consistently dropping since 1993.

Like Washington and Lincoln, FDR would have regarded Trump and all that surrounds him as abhorrent.

Hillary Clinton doesn’t need to move toward the “middle.” She needs to move instead toward the anti-establishment.

Trump appears to be getting more extreme, not less.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz will step down after the DNC.

“George Orwell warned us that the war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Americans need to aggressively question their politicians and the media, ignore empty slogans, challenge warmongering propaganda, and swiftly reject disinformation from the corporate media.”