(Photo: Lance Page / Truthout) Having served in the military for twenty years and having police officers and other civil servants in my family and among my …
One of the golden rules of etiquette is to avoid talking in polite company about politics, sex or religion. Some also add money. And a lot of people would …
Last week, just before Veterans Day, my seven-year-old son, a second grader at a public school on Kauai, brought home an issue of Scholastic News. The cover …
The emergence of what we know as Occupy Wall Street, or the 99 Percent Movement, has taken nearly everyone by surprise, producing a transformation of public consciousness. There is …
The big buzz on cable news this week is that the supercommittee failed when it couldn't come to a compromise on how to cut the federal budget by $1.5 …
Let's hope that the failure of the "super committee" quest to take money out of the economy clears the media mist for a minute, so people can focus on …
Occupy Wall Street, November 17: at least 30,000 fill Foley Square. (Photo: cisc1970) The Occupy movement is demonstrating its durability and perseverance. Like a Daruma doll, each …
The most important thing about the victory of labor unions and progressive organizations in Ohio on Nov. 8 is that it shows that democracy still rules in the United …
Ten years ago, Susan Dentzler of NPR was retained by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to investigate whether time banking (a system that lets people swap time and skill …