Voices for Change

In 1915 one of the most nakedly racist films was screened in the White House. One hundred years later a very different film, directed by an African-American woman, was screened there. Change happens, slowly, but it happens. Could the birth of a new nation be at hand?

While ISIS continues to haunt the nightmares of Western journalists and security analysts, Juan Cole points out some assertions about the "Islamic State" that are truly exaggerated and completely incorrect.

It's necessary to restate the solid principles of populism and reassert its true spirit.

Democrats are wise to seize the moment. The time has come for Medicare for all.

Perhaps we should thank vicious rightwingers for broadcasting what’s truly at stake in next year’s election.

The former Prime Minister has no conscience at all and feels no guilt for all those maimed and lost in his wars of choice.

If Putinism is victorious in Ukraine, it will set a horrific precedent not only for other territorial grabs but also other attacks on democracy.

The US Republican Party and their plus-one, Sen. Joe Manchin, are preventing the US from becoming the dominant automaker in the world in this decade by consistently shooting down the green energy and transportation provisions.

It's about time the people that run for office feel the burden of revealing payments based on their economic worth, not anticipated political clout. Have we entered a future of anticipatory bribery?

David Petraeus finally answers his own question.