Voices for Change

If Trump’s scattergun of skullduggery escapes real, permanent penalties, brace for equally audacious, sneakier political sneaks.

Why support for capping CEO pay will only keep growing.

The old game is dead. Keep playing it and our civilization is over. Try winning that one.

Imagine what Republicans would say if a Democrat had invited the Russian president to interfere in a U.S. election.

One day, in one life, when the attractions of the sensory world have lost their charm, when we begin to see the truth of the Buddha’s words – that desire is cause of all suffering; when television, video games, sex, drugs and alcohol fail to fill the inner emptiness; when we sit in a pub with a friend and ask aloud, what the point of it all is.

There is indeed terrorism raging throughout large parts of the Ogaden and elsewhere in the country; it is State Terrorism perpetrated by a brutal regime that is guilty of widespread criminality, much of which constitutes crimes against humanity.

Wall Street is back to many of its old tricks. But the bigger they get, the more likely it is that the government will bail them out if they get into trouble again. So what needs to be done to tame Wall Street?

Tom Engelhardt discusses how our new hybrid system fits the Constitution, the classic tripartite separation of powers and the idea of democracy increasingly poorly. And warns recent college grads who are about to enter the “real world,” you're already in it.

The environmental crisis and the mishandling of climate change are issues that are going to make the 2020s a decade of transformational change.

Let’s hope it marks the beginning of a renewal of worker power in America.