Voices for Change

Although only now becoming widely known, mindfulness is an ancient technique, shared by Gautama Buddha some 2,500 years ago (but one that may be even older).

The divisiveness that Trump had been planting in this country, spreading anger and hatred between various elements of our society, will come to an end and the healing process will begin.

The longer Trump lasts the worse for the GOP, but the Virginia election reversals signal the beginning of the end for Trumpery.

They hide the true cost when you buy a good or service.

This may not be the political thing to do. But in order to safeguard our democracy, it is the right thing to do.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists only moved the hands of the Clock forward by one second, which must have come as a relief to the few members of the public who heard about it. 

This tax-break not only lets the giant, multinational corporations get away with doing what Trump did, it hands them a huge, beautiful reward for doing it.

If we continue to ignore the hunger, poverty and desperate families and communities of our young, we guarantee there will be a huge, violent population plagued by crime, drug addiction and high incarceration rates. If we save the children, we save society.

Johnson is part of a privileged cozy class (Eton to Oxbridge to Whitehall) that feels themselves exempt from moral duties, social obligations and legal restrictions.

Strange how horror can oscillate into absurdity and back at ever accelerating rates. And strange how it rebounds to undermine basic American rights at home.