Voices for Change

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.

Whether the result of calculation or a career of selling, Trump’s attention-grabbing package of dark and light explains how his national prominence surpassed an array of very talented evangelical crooks, most obscuring years of false prophesy, monetary or sexual hypocrisy.

This intervention by an important group of U.S. national security experts comes at a time when Ukraine is delaying its long-promised spring offensive to avoid "unacceptable" losses, and a return to the negotiating table can therefore save countless lives.

Do hunters really need semi-automatic AR-15 assault weapons? Is that how they roll in deer season? The US public doesn’t think so.

For a guy who brags interminably about his self-evident genius — getting rich by building colossal, ritzy stuff— Trump’s historic significance is getting fully established: he is a uniter of odd bedfellows (against his excesses) and already the demolisher-in-chief, whether of his party or campaign.

While the incitement of anti-immigrant prejudice for political gain is shameful and socially explosive, it is certainly not new or uncommon in our country.

Wherever you imagine yourself and your family forty years from now, you will still be feeling the effects of this year’s election.

Revolutions are not about overwhelming negativity.

No opinion leader any longer commands enough broad-based respect to influence a majority of the public. Circus politics may be fun to watch, but it’s profoundly dangerous for America and the world.

As the U.S. and Cuba had their first formal meeting in more than half a century, Eduardo Galeano, the great Uruguayan writer who did so much to explain the deeply unequal relations, recently died. Will the open wounds be healed in Latin America?