Voices for Change

Will history record that Republican senators were more united in their opposition to democracy than Democratic senators are in their support for it?

Both men would be disasters for America, but Ted Cruz would be the larger disaster.

Wall Street Insiders who trade on confidential information unavailable to small investors don’t improve the productivity of financial markets. They just rig the game for themselves.

The accomplishments of the freedom struggle, anti-lynching campaigns, the civil-rights movement are not insignificant. But that doesn’t change the white-supremacist roots and contemporary reality of the United States.

Without a shared sense of common good, there can be no “we” to begin with.

The time for review and mild statements of condemnation is over.

Except the prospect of more than 20 million people losing their health insurance, and a huge redistribution from the working class to the very rich.

A radical program would embrace the freedom to migrate as universal and therefore reorient the global location of investment to serve that freedom both domestically and internationally.

Difficult work remains for those in whom Martin Luther King Jr. had the most hope: the people, organizing grass-roots power for peace.

This week Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on all counts in the Boston Marathon bombings. However, there was not much Muslim recognizable in his and his brother's style of life. Here are 10 ways that the Tsarnaev brothers broke Muslim law, according to Juan Cole.