Op-Ed

Like most progressive-minded folk with Canadian friends, I was profoundly aggrieved to hear of Jack Layton's death last Monday. The leader of the New Democratic Party NDP) succumbed to …

Rick Perry links the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and '60s to the struggle of the Republican Party to absolve the wealthiest Americans from paying a fair share …

Israeli writer Uri Avnery recently wrote an article entitled ‘How Godly Are Thy Tents?’, which began with the words, “First of all, a warning.” The reference was …

Climatologists tell us that we cannot relate any specific weather event to global warming but there is no doubt that human-caused global warming increases the likelihood of extreme weather …

This week, Virginia experienced a magnitude 5.8 earthquake, one of the most powerful tremors on the east coast since 1897. As Virginians scramble to assess the damage, House Majority …

You might not be aware of this news from northern Arizona, since the reporting of it in the media has been less than robust, but in recent weeks there …

The ceremonies for the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington DC were kicked off on August 24 at an event billed as Honoring Global Leaders for Peace. …

You hear over and over that Social Security is “in trouble” or that we “can't afford it.” This is as far from true as can be, and the idea …

At the end of the night of Wisconsin’s first round of recall elections, now some two weeks ago, liberal heads were hanging low. Democrats needed to take back three …

“Shrinking government” in American political discourse has, for decades now, meant the following. We enlarge the government's budget through taxation and penalties on working people and through borrowing and …