Voices for Change

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. offers progressives a mishmash of appealing statements, “free market” corporatism and assorted political toxins.

Is Putin the face of the future or the final gasp of the past?

The Democratic Party has not been taking seriously many of the reasons for Trump’s support and the range of that support. And the media has not been discussing many of the reasons for Trump’s support. That needs to change.

What property-driven, rights-oriented society allows protesters to both spread disease AND violate sacred boundaries?

Austrians just elected a crusty 72-year-old leftist as their country's president in a surprise result that saw both their major mainstream party's candidates crushed. Could a crusty 74-year-old leftist named Bernie Sanders pull off the same feat here in the US, running as a Green candidate if Hillary Clinton gets the Democratic nomination?

Bernie’s successes don’t help Trump. To the contrary, they are bringing into politics millions of young voters whose values are opposite to those of Trump’s.

Trump articulates ideas that are closer to what is considered “normal” in the United States than many of us are willing to acknowledge.

To date, Sanders’ criticism of Clinton on this point is inferential, not specific.

As party members meet to approve a new platform, they pay little attention to the industry that's destroying government and politics.

“We will have to do this together. No one will do it for us. And as the numbers in the streets swell the corruption of our political system becomes ever more apparent.”