Voices for Change

Settling our differences through ballots and agreed-upon processes rather than through force is what separates democracy from authoritarianism. Trump wants the latter.

"I don’t know what else to call it when a president is actively curtailing voting rights and doing his damnedest to de-legitimize the election..."

There is no subject too trivial, no norm too unobtrusive, no threshold of decorum Trump won’t trash to make hay for his “culture war” presidency.

North Korea ultimately prefers the predictability of Russia and China to the unreliability of the United States.

Lack of governmental oversight of factory farms has created a public health crisis of antibiotic-resistance diseases in people.

As BlackRock has boisterously taken up the mantle of sustainable investing, it must do more to shepherd us into a peace-based economy.

New methodologies are needed that inculcate true individuality and creative independent thinking. At the heart of the required changes – which need to be both gradual and radical – must be education – formal and non-formal.

What will happen if robots, AI, and automation displace a huge percentage of workers. How will there be enough consumers to buy all the goods and services produced if there is a big drop in earnings?

What in the world is happening in and to America, that’s the question that we Americans must answer as our democracy, our republic, comes under intense political attack, and may well become a thing of the past, if the former president, Donald J. Trump, is reelected.

Bernie and AOC have joined together to pass the Loan Shark Prevention Act. Could this may become a big issue in 2020?