Tag: culture

People can only be squeezed so much before they rise up and say, “enough!”

What, if anything, does Martin Shkreli’s downfall tell us about modern America?

The town hall will focus on poverty in America, the 40-year decline of the middle class, and the growing power and political influence of corporate interests.

So what was it about the Parkland killings that tipped the scale? This is among the questions we teachers have been asking one another at school recently.

We are a brainwashed nation and the political energy of “resisters” is expended in outrage or, at best, fending off the latest assault on immigrants, the poor, civil liberties.

It's time to recognize that when violence explodes out of nowhere, time and again, and at such a cost – violence is the system, violence courses through its veins.

A moral movement is growing against the violence perpetrated by all of them, making it necessary for both government and business to take action.

The challenge is to turn all this into a new public spiritedness extending to the highest reaches in the land.

To have an honest, nonpartisan discussion about gun violence, we must look at what happened in New York, California, and Texas.

America’s childhood, a kingdom we’ve surrendered for no good reason at all.