We are now reaping the whirlwind of a political economy that has produced the widest class divide in this country in nearly 100 years.
We have one major party that represents an unprecedented form of extremism and the other major party that has abdicated its historic mission as a voice for the voiceless.
Increasingly since the 1970s, the parties have attended to the interests of the economic and political elites at the expense the most of the rest of the population.
The Democrats capitulated to the Republican “Southern Strategy” initiated by Nixon and nurtured by Reagan, Clinton and the Bushes. Both parties have served (Republicans) and acquiesced to (Democrats) the economic agendas of corporate capitalism.
In the most recent national discussions about the dangers of guns in our society, there has been little analysis focusing on the U.S. Supreme Court's role in the ongoing crisis of gun ownership in our country. While it would diminish cause and effect to draw a singular connection between...
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again,” contains a spelling error. Should it not be spelled “Grate?” Merriam-Webster tells us that the word “grate” is 1) to break into small pieces, 2) to grind against something with a harsh noise, 3) to have an irritating...
“I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this.” That was Pete Seeger's answer to U.S. Rep. Francis Walter, D-Pa., before a House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearing in 1955. That earned Pete a one-year prison sentence...
Over 60 years ago, one of my heroes, Ammon Hennacy, was arrested for refusing to pay his taxes because so much of our money was allocated for war and the development of nuclear weapons. Ammon was one of the most frequently arrested activists in the peace movement in the 1950s and 1960s. At one of his hearings for tax resistance, the judge said, “Ammon [they were on a first name basis by now], I am citing you for non-payment of...