Voices for Change

Legalizing, taxing, and regulating is good for the economy and creates jobs.

In an open letter to an unknown American patriot, Tom Engelhardt offers his version of the Ten Commandments for a better American world and a better world generally.

I think that many of the postal services provided would be handled better in other ways. And I would say the same thing about booksellers. And newspaper publishers.

“This is what Attorney General Sessions will unleash ... if we are not vigilant and resistant.”

Bernie and AOC have joined together to pass the Loan Shark Prevention Act. Could this may become a big issue in 2020?

From grammar rules to everyday slang, debates over descriptivism and prescriptivism reveal how we balance authority with the way people really speak.

When does merely offensive speech becomes oppressive? When should one person’s freedom of expression, no matter how offensive, be defended and when does a pattern of abusive expression clearly undermine the ability of others to participate fully in a classroom discussion?

The law has flaws, but more Americans are insured than ever – and insurers are still turning a healthy profit.

It is difficult at this point to know how Trump will govern since so many of his campaign pledges were contradictory or impossible.

Although only now becoming widely known, mindfulness is an ancient technique, shared by Gautama Buddha some 2,500 years ago (but one that may be even older).