Voices for Change

If this weren’t enough to convince rational people to do what most other advanced nations have done – create a single-payer system that insures everyone, funded by taxpayers – consider that America’s giant health insurers are now busily consolidating into ever-larger behemoths.

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.

Get the lowdown from Greg Palast on Trump’s new hedge fund BFFs and the hidden payoff that’s facilitating their cozy relationship.

Congress has thirty days to block the sale of these weapons. It is a moral imperative that they do so.

It may not improve much next year, if House Republicans have their way.

Trump won’t fight for the little guy. He’s only fighting for himself, and for the privileged boys and girls who are the only peer group he has ever cared about.

Such violent, crude methods will only succeed for so long: eventually the people will unite and revolt, as they are now doing, and all strength to their cause, which is wholly just.

At the U.S. Olympic marathon trials held in Los Angeles to choose the team for the Rio Olympic Games this year, 30 percent of the runners dropped out of the race due to the heat. It will be even worse 4 years from now.

Two choice are emerging: one is a public single-payer system. The other is a hugely-expensive for-profit oligopoly with the market power to charge high prices even to healthy people – and to charge sick people an arm and a leg.

What a maverick! What a shake-'em-up outsider! What an anti-establishment fighter for working stiffs! Oh, and don't forget this: What a phony!