Voices for Change

John Stumpf is undoubtedly decompressing somewhere right now, waiting in comfort for the heat to die down.

This is not the change you were promised.

One rare CEO is increasing up to one-third of his employees' pay as well as adjusting its company health plan so lower-income workers can get the same health coverage. Aetna set a new national standard for competitive wages.

A best-case scenario of a President Trump could be like Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi: an embarrassment for society and a disaster for the country.

"We identify angels by looking at their hearts, not their hair."

A “new breed” of charter schools is spreading conservative ideology and Christian nationalism.

Smaller, more sustainable families would create massive long-term savings and catalyze sustainable development.

Running for America's highest office in our democratic republic has been perverted into a gold rush. The donors and political sycophants involved in this obscene corruption of the system are playing with dynamite.

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.

Without a genuine commitment to peace and disarmament, the next president will find him- or herself caught in the same bind as Obama and Trump.