Voices for Change

Wanted: Real resistance

Have Democrats gone from “Yes we can,” to “We shouldn’t even try?"

Either we go with the business allies of Donald Trump who believe the extra time and labor of low-wage workers should be exploited without compensation, or we believe in restoring the bargain we used to have with lower-wage workers that they deserve the humanity of a 40-hour workweek and the fairness of time-and-a-half for working overtime.

The Wall Street Journal recently dumped on Bernie Sanders' expansion of government based on misinformation and distortion. Now, Robert Reich is responding to the recent article by spreading the truth.

Next week, Medicare turns 50—originally signed into law on July 30, 1965. While Medicare is so popular, it continues to be blamed for America’s present and future budget problems when actually it's the greatest solution.

By the time the Trump nightmare is over in 2024, the country, like its by then water-logged coastlines, will be hard to recognize.

Two parallel investigations, state and federal, are underway in an attempt to determine if any crimes have been committed.

This Supreme Court, once highly regarded and esteemed, has now become a rogue court taking its orders from Trump and the Republican Party. The time to reverse this terrible immunity ruling is now.

Trump and his inner circle seem intent on using the cudgel of the executive to diminish the clout of the judiciary and the Congress.

One day, in one life, when the attractions of the sensory world have lost their charm, when we begin to see the truth of the Buddha’s words – that desire is cause of all suffering; when television, video games, sex, drugs and alcohol fail to fill the inner emptiness; when we sit in a pub with a friend and ask aloud, what the point of it all is.