Voices for Change

Broken child welfare policies have undermined political systems and destroyed the planetary ecosystem.

The big picture contrasts America of 1895 with how far we’ve come: despite setbacks and injustices, a century plus of domestic advances in freedom and justice match other enlightened nations.

What is the purpose of our existence? I can think of only one, and that is to make the lives of people on Earth as fulfilling as possible and for as long as possible.

“My message to young activists is: Continue to advocate. Draw inspiration from what you see. Don't change the channel.”

An estimated 700 million people go hungry every day.

A new world is dawning, one in which humanity dodges the huge hail of bullets of the climate emergency.

Democrats’ political prospects will suffer if they cling to Obamacare’s less popular and less effective provisions.

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

Investigative journalist Allan Nairn knows firsthand how the U.S. uses mass killing as a routine tool of foreign policy. The horrifying tactics of Islamic State, he says, are an imitation of what we have been doing and what we have been teaching our international proxies for generations.

Chelsea Manning is expected to be released on May 17.