Voices for Change

With a sharp slowdown and a relatively weak jobs report, the boom in the U.S. economy has come to an end. Why is it that so many professional economists and economic reporters mistook the strength of the U.S. economy?

For I believe that this catastrophe should have taught us something about what is good and bad about life.

The Wall Street Journal called China’s slowdown “disappointing.” But for the environment, it is welcome news.

"Our current capitalist-driven inequalities will only be rectified when people realize that a strong community makes successful individuals, not the other way around." Paul Buchheit discusses the few ways we would benefit with a social democracy.

Obama and Holder have bequeathed yet another tool of authoritarianism to the incoming Trumpian troglodytes.

In spite of the unusually low unemployment rate there is little evidence of wage acceleration.

As Pope Francis takes on global warming in 2015, dirty-energy supporters are cowering as their flimsy ideological castles are being threatened. Yet it's about time humans admit that climate change is not only a matter of science, but also of moral duty.

Rachel Moran, like many other girls and women, was forced into prostitution—desperate and homeless. Now a prostitution abolition activist, writer and blogger, Moran has created an organization for survivors of prostitution and is striving for its outlaw.

Billions of people throughout the world are desperate for change, for freedom, social justice, greater democracy and environmental action.

Donald Trump's election would give the phrase “hot-button issue” a genuinely new meaning. (And believe me, I’m already sweating!)