Voices for Change

But what reforms come without great pains?/The status quo sneers at balls and chains.

The line of the Obama administration had been that US troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria were only trainers and advisors. But US forces have exceeded that role.

The demand for representation, increasing even before COVID-19, soared during the pandemic as Americans saw how unions helped their members.

"Privatization places profits over people." While American people remain the products, our leaders continue to think free-market capitalism works best. But here are a few "fact-based" examples that prove otherwise.

Donald Trump thinks his intuition is better than knowledge of the past. That’s dangerous for him and all the rest of us.

Trump figures that at some point the murk will seem too complicated and too partisan. Could he get away with it?

In his column, Thomas Magstadt lists a few facts about U.S. history from a new book about Indigenous people of the nation written from the perspective of non-Indigenous people. It's time we as a nation recognize our past wrongs so we can finally heal.

The biggest uncertainty is the economy.

America and the rest of the world must hold our collective breath, hoping that the next elections – the midterms of 2018 and then the presidential election of 2020 – set things right.

If there was ever a time to embrace the kind of international cooperation the left has always called for, it’s during a global pandemic.