Voices for Change

Arrogant ridesharing corporations thought they could buy an election, but they chose the wrong city.

Either we go with the business allies of Donald Trump who believe the extra time and labor of low-wage workers should be exploited without compensation, or we believe in restoring the bargain we used to have with lower-wage workers that they deserve the humanity of a 40-hour workweek and the fairness of time-and-a-half for working overtime.

Either we recognize our own responsibility and demand better of ourselves AND our political leaders, or one day soon we will wake up and discover that the country we know and love is gone forever.

Just as the protean Donald will say anything to win votes, the Party of Hypocrisy now confirms its mind-blowing hypocrisy, willing to support a partial, perceived winner who says anything to win power. Is that how to to make Republicans, let alone America, great again? Or just Trump, the perfect, modern media candidate, talking in such empty constructs angry campers can project whatever they want? Now we understand why rightwingers will embrace the Trumpster, less for unity than desperation: it's not pretty to see a national party cornered, then nullified, or worse.

Jesuit Fr. Daniel Berrigan will be remembered for challenging the conscience of the Catholic church and the nation on the dangers of militarism.

It is time for change. To make this change, a political revolution needs to take a place.

Has the “Swiss” firm Novartis becomes the 21st-century version of United Fruit and ITT?

A slender, long-forgotten work of fiction foresees the rage and frustration of Donald Trump's America.

Gig economy is aptly named, for "gigs" are crude four-hook fishing devices that are dragged by commercial fleets through schools of fish to impale them, haul them in, and cash in on the pain.

But don’t bother to blame the politicians and national security nabobs in Washington for this. They’re addicts. They can’t help themselves.