Voices for Change

Trump isn’t and was never a smart businessman. He was and is smart at gaming the system. There’s a difference.

But how does this compare to the worst forms of poverty in other countries?

It appears that, once again, the Establishment is the clear winner.

Chris Hedges talks with Noam Chomsky on the state of affairs in America and hope for the future.

The homeless are feared by the upper classes, and they're often arrested for nonexistent or non-violent infractions, in good part because they are simply considered "offensive" to people of means.

Members of Congress, comfortably nestled in bed with millionaire friends and corporate lobbyists, are in denial about the true state of the American middle class.

Fortunately, there are those -- who receive very little high-profile media ink -- that challenge the purpose and priorities of our twinned economic and physical wars. But they deserve allies in media – who don’t just seek to promote the lesser evil – but a world worthy of our humanity and of our potential.

Clinton’s smooth rhetoric should not change the fact that -- on a vast array of issues -- basic principles will require progressives to fight against her actual policy goals, every step of the way.

Our system of inverted totalitarianism has within it the seeds of an overt or classical fascism.

Viewing Donald Trump in light of the fascists of the first half of the twentieth century helps explain what Trump is doing and how he is succeeding.