Politics

The Republican House speaker is out to steal away Americans’ hard-earned retirement benefits.

"Allowing a corporation to bottle our water just to sell it back to us is hardly an 'essential service.'"

It’s time for America to, once again, become the government of, by and for the people.

The American people better wake soon and realize that this nation’s democracy is under direct attack by these forces of fascism.

Thus Trump campaigns like a redneck, white trash billionaire, even though that term defies logic, history and reason. But then his benighted audience, with nods to white supremacy, isn’t expert at logic, history or reason. Not getting truly educated, thus not able to keep themselves informed, elevates emotion over thinking, thus making them vulnerable to a hustler who does PT Barnum proud.

These captains of American capitalism are brazenly ignoring their responsibility to their own nation, a nation in desperate need of funding for education and infrastructure and job training.

Representative democracy based on majority rule is logical; anything else is utterly illogical and self-defeating.

Both men would be disasters for America, but Ted Cruz would be the larger disaster.

To really help the poorest countries, we need to do less: less military, less debt, and less corporate farming.

"I have not intentionally visited schools that are underperforming.”