Voices for Change

Between these two progressives, support for Clinton's identity politics could seriously waver as they mount a more effective progressive attack against her corrupt influence.

Hillary Clinton needs to show voters that she can make bold choices. She must embrace the populist moment and the electorate’s yearning for change if she is to fend off Trump’s insurgent challenge.

Fatal inequality will continue to terrorize this nation until we genuinely commit to confronting racism and gun violence.

In this week’s Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Election Crimes Bulletin, Dennis J. Bernstein and Greg Palast explain how Bernie can take a tip from Satan’s playbook and seize this moment to create one hell of a powerful a movement!

“Real change never takes place from the top down. It always occurs from the bottom on up — when tens of millions of people say ‘enough is enough’ and become engaged in the fight for justice.”

Here are some instances of sticky fingers or the even more insidious ‘sticky reverse fingers.’

The GOP Convention slugfest already confirms this election comes down to our child energy vs. our adult tenure — politically, between the gullible open to a con artist’s reality-denying, grammar-school reductionism vs. more circumspect voters who embrace a distrusted, hawkish but manifestly rational adult.

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.

The United States is great at focusing on any sort of carnage and blaming ISIS, one of hundreds of groups in Syria, and building alliances with Sunni states.

We are better people, individually and collectively, when we reject hubris and embrace humility, and we stand a better chance of making real progress when we better understand the world and our place in it.