Voices for Change

The world’s one-time sole surviving superpower is in decline. And what ails the U.S. can be seen through the experience of ordinary people—those who personify the existential rationale for “democracy.”

John Boehner secretly invited Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to Washington to help him craft a super-majority in Congress to join his veto over-ride effort of Obama's new sanctions on Iran. Will he succeed?

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

Donald Trump was hostile to the CFPB from the start, and he said this as he shoehorned Mulvaney into the director’s chair.

Credit where credit's due.

Since the end of April, there have been three mass shootings that can be directly tied to white nationalism. The victims of...

It’s time to create a grassroots groundswell that can compel Joe Biden to give public notice -- preferably soon -- that he won’t provide an assist to Republican forces by trying to extend his presidency for another four years

Ultimate bunker buster against Trumpism is to demolish his fraudulent magic show, not let him flee when his incompetence is scrutinized. Trump exemplifies the “triumph of the will” school in which he’s the special, self-appointed strongman destined to save the world by ruling it. The great vulnerability is his empty, amoral magic shell game has neither hidden bean, nor relevance to the world outside his selfish bubble. And though pathological, he's not an effective political liar.

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.

Top party officials seem bent on returning to a kind of pre-Bernie-campaign doldrums.