Voices for Change

Evan Young, valedictorian of his graduating class this year, was told by his school Principal that he was not allowed to give the valedictorian speech he wrote because it included his admission of being gay. The principal even went so far as to out Evan to his father!

The GOP's 2016 contenders talk a good game about the wealth gap while making it even bigger. Don't they know this is the biggest issue affecting Americans?

Trump is neglecting or worsening five genuinely big problems facing America. Why is he doing these things?

How much disease and death is enough to force this nation to learn from failure, reject T.V. magic shows and return to sane science?

Profit maximizing in the newspaper industry is corroding the knowledge base that sustains government by the people.

Lord Don has taken a great fall, as he was ousted as CEO in 2010, and then finally, last week, was convicted for the conspiracy that led to the needless deaths of those 29 miners.

That Graham looks at Trump and sees someone speaking in a completely different diction from himself, or hears the crazy in Trump’s pronouncements but not in his known, just underlines how hard it is for us to estimate our own failings.

The real Trump isn’t a populist. He’s a plutocrat. Above all, he’s a con man.

Here's a reality the sloppy corporate media ignores: Our postal network costs taxpayers zero, for we consumers finance its operations by purchasing stamps and other services.

How the invasion of Iraq came home.