Voices for Change

It’s understandable that the super wealthy might wish to escape the gravitational pull of the rest of us. But there’s really no escape.

You don’t have to be an English major to appreciate that style reveals as much as content when assessing persona, character and...

Donald Trump didn’t come out of nowhere. He is the loudest and clearest warning shot across the bow of the current American political-economic system.

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

It is impossible to govern the country in this style, as we see already in Trump’s failure to fill so many vital positions that he was forced to ask Obama appointees to remain in place.

The first 100 days is an artificial landmark for presidents. But it does offer an opportunity to pause and assess their accomplishments.

Abu-Jamal’s current health crisis clearly illustrates this national atrocity. His situation is also clearly unconstitutional, as leaving an inmate untreated, including for a disease like diabetes, has been declared by the US Supreme Court to be "cruel and unusual punishment."

The DeVos couple are pushing plutocratic policies that reject our country's one-for-all, all-for-one egalitarianism.

Deere's licensing scheme is an artificial, corporate-imposed, private "law" that will squeeze independent shops out of business.

If they really want to "improve the state of the world," they should be using all their lobbyists and lawyers to make sure their tax money is supporting a cooperative national effort to protect the environment for their great-grandchildren and to remain competitive in the technologies of the future.