Voices for Change

What is the real purpose of a public option or lowering the age of Medicare when neither is an effective nor a lasting solution?

There was a new category of staffing added to Big Money in politics. Campaigns are now hiring “donor maintenance managers” as personal concierges to millionaire supporters—another example of plutocratic corruption of our democratic elections.

There are an estimated 80,000-100,000 prisoners held in some form of solitary confinement in the United States. The United Nations says the practice often amounts to torture. It is cruel and unusual punishment, and must be abolished, once and for all.

We’re just going to have more buybacks and more inequality.

"Do the wealthy contend that their excess wealth is needed by the economy?"

The Office of Special Counsel says Kellyanne Conway broke the law by disparaging Democratic candidates for president, both while appearing on T.V. in her official capacity as an adviser to the president and on her Twitter feed.

Either “rugged individualism” is exposed as a mistaken, scam mythology, disrupting and exploiting what’s good for the many -- or we face something closer to “rugged extinction.”

U.S. military strategists were eager “to use the bomb first where its effects would not only be politically effective, but also technically measurable.”

A Texas Republican, who's ready to retire with a nice pension, wants to cut Social Security benefits for everyone else by up to 69 percent.

Wall Street bought them – and is now leasing them out and driving up rents.