Voices for Change

We can fight against this cognitive war by insisting on an alternative vision for U.S. foreign policy, one in which the country becomes a good neighbor by centering its relationship with the hemisphere (and the world) on peace, solidarity and shared prosperity.

Obama will be delivering his defense of the proposed TPP at the Nike headquarters in Oregon thinking it is a good example of what he is hoping to accomplish. Unfortunately, Nike is not a solution but is, in fact, the very problem with this TPP proposal.

Institutions like New York City’s Museum of Food and Drink are making food literacy fun.

This is not just an abstract dilemma that many households are facing; it is necropolitics in action, the state-sanctioned power to decide who lives and dies.

We are beyond shock and awe, awaiting indictments, then trials, by inexplicably sluggish prosecutors.

The harrowing story of a Maine family shows the potential perils families face when they transfer to privately run schools that are less subject to government oversight.

The elderly have become the victims of financial exploitation and neglect. Is America going through the greatest retirement crisis in the history of the world?

So many ordinary people choose to believe in grotesque conspiracy theories and often blame others rather than the deeply flawed free market system.

Language plays an important role in understanding the concept of numbers.

Our reliance on armed agents of the state has led to fascism. The only way out is to abolish policing and militarism.