Voices for Change

Hospital attacks in Yemen and Kunduz have not been mentioned in any of the U.S. presidential debates or forums so far. We need a full investigation of these crimes, to hold those responsible accountable.

Twelve years ago Rep. Steve Scalise accepted an invitation to speak for a racist and anti-Semitic hate group. His story should serve as a warning to the leaders of the Republican Party.

These children, our own children and grandchildren, are facing terrors because of the self-serving corporate demand for profit over human need.

Of course, we say, Republicans would never go as far as the Nazis did. But then, either would Germans in 1933.

From grammar rules to everyday slang, debates over descriptivism and prescriptivism reveal how we balance authority with the way people really speak.

The question for the next six months: Will the damage from Trump’s past, present and future crimes against humanity make him less electable?

“I don’t trust him.”

Even Chuck Schumer, New York senator who never finds a global trade deal too ugly to hug, fears that the Trans-Pacific Partnership would let corporations roll back laws at every level of government. Yes, the TPP is shameful, Chuck!

How long has Rep. Steve Scalise been involved in Congress' take-and-give game with lobbyists? Ever since he starting writing the rules that give such corruption a pass. As Scalise puts it, he must “keep and expand our [Republican] majority in Congress.”

We just have to hope Americans have learned about the greed and deception of that arena full of super-rich.