Voices for Change

Global uprisings against corruption can fuse middle-class concerns over the rule of law to a more radical critique of unequal political systems.

The agency’s importance is growing. Come November, American democracy may depend on it.

What it really means to be on a “flattening” planet.

As delegates prepare for COP27 and fossil fuel companies report record profits, the environmental emergency couldn’t be more pressing; the need for action by governments, corporations and populations more urgent, and the stench of complacency more pungent.

Chris Hedges recently delivered this eulogy for his friend and former divinity school classmate, the Rev. Terry Burke, who spent 31 years as the pastor of the First Church Jamaica Plain in Boston.

If you're a working-class or middle-class taxpayer, this "reform" offers nothing except uncertainty.

The resulting power imbalance has spawned near-record inequalities of income and wealth, corruption of democracy by big money, and the abandonment of the working class.

The president's pledge to roll back a hedge fund loophole has mysteriously vanished from his tax plan.

Time and again, "repeal and replace" has proven to be a farce. Let's focus on the hard work of true reform and get health care for all.

The greatest danger we face today is not coming from China. It is our drift toward proto-fascism.