Voices for Change

What if one-third of the right's seething, trust-only-their-gut gang cram Trump, already a General Election underdog, down their party throat? Fire-breathing Trumpery has not just dismantled the rightwing propaganda machine. He's discredited all lead "conservative" ideologues and their tiresome, failed ideology. Daily, Trump decimates the broken Bush coalition of billionaires, evangelicals and angry, dispossessed white workers. Bravo, I say! Trump is a win-win for the left, whether a primary winner or not.

The dark cloud of illegitimacy continues to grow darker.

We wouldn’t say “it” or “that” when referring to humans, so why would we for other sentient individuals?

Is the Pentagon behind this massive hit on independent journalism?

As the U.S. and Cuba had their first formal meeting in more than half a century, Eduardo Galeano, the great Uruguayan writer who did so much to explain the deeply unequal relations, recently died. Will the open wounds be healed in Latin America?

Socialism -- or at least social consciousness -- allows us to understand that the most tangible form of 'terror' is in the lives and minds of destitute and homeless Americans.

When in the history of this country have we ever seen members of the U.S. Senate like these Republicans, who once swore an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution, but now act as if it has become irrelevant and meaningless?

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

Rick Perry has zero expertise or experience for the job he's being handed.

You can’t lie your way out of a contagion, nor substitute bad faith for vaccine cures.