Voices for Change

Simply demanding that all measures to protect public health be brought to an end without crafting policies to do this safely is not only selfish but a recipe for further disaster.

"If there be anything sadder than a body perishing for want of bread, it is a mind dying of hunger for lack of light.”

The feeling that Obama’s administration was in many ways a continuation of rather than a break with Bush is one of the things impelling voters on both sides of the aisle to support mavericks. Here are what Juan Cole see as turning points in Obama’s gradual betrayal of hope and change.

Big Pharma "cornered the market on life-saving heart drugs" and guess what happened next: they jacked up the prices. Are pharmaceutical companies' business models based on legalized price gouging?

We must be united to take back our democracy.

This power shift hasn't just changed paychecks—it has fundamentally altered the physical and mental health landscape for millions of Americans.

The remainder of the presidential campaign will be characterized by an attempt among liberals to discredit third-party and popular movements. Yet our only hope for change will come by breaking free from the tyranny of the two corporate parties.

Hydropower dams, initially celebrated as feats of engineering, are now scrutinized for their negative environmental and societal impacts.

John Kerry and Mohammad Javad Zarif have demonstrated that we don’t have to fight World War III in the Middle East with the framework of the nuclear deal. Diplomacy can work—war is not the only available policy tool.

Here is a thought on Labor Day: Our jobs are disappearing. And while large corporations and the super-rich have little care for the average people, it's time we consider the dangerously divided world we've created for generations to come.