Voices for Change

Trump can’t stand that he can't punch one hole in one state’s tabulations, thus his ever-tiresome "rigged election" lies, taking the untenable to the unthinkable.

Sanders' populist surge naturally intrigues a wide range of free-thinking, truth-seeking voters, but we are being warned by the Democratic hierarchy that the only way to ward off a Donald Trump-Ted Cruz presidency is to set aside our populist idealism this year and stick with Barack Obama-style.

The fact that trade has exposed manufacturing workers to international competition, but not doctors and lawyers, was a policy choice, not a natural development.

There isn’t any doubt that the US has lagged behind the rest of the world on gender equality in politics.

In the waning days of his administration, I’d recommend Obama take the following last stands.

We are in the twilight stages of the rolling corporate coup d’état begun four decades ago.

Trump’s spending and tax priorities are not in the best interest of most Americans.

Trump figures that at some point the murk will seem too complicated and too partisan. Could he get away with it?

Martin Winterkorn, VW’s disgraced CEO, was forced to resign after the auto maker's eco-friendly diesel cars actually polluted the air more than allowed by law. Finally, a CEO must pay the consequences for betraying consumers and the environment?

Only Congress, Republicans and Democrats acting together, can protect the nation from this incompetent, venal, and dangerous executive.