May 5, 2017 By Joyce Rothermel Global efforts, including that of the United States, have made great progress toward ending hunger and poverty over the last three decades. Around the world […]
Food Security Safety Net in Jeopardy; You Can Help
Trump Budget and Tax Proposals: a Disaster in the Making
April 28, 2017 By Molly Rush Up to now, little attention has been paid to President Trump’s proposed budget and its impact on most Americans. And that’s no accident. Trump’s has a […]
The Psychopathology in America’s Zeitgeist
March 9, 2017 By Michael Drohan In the present political turmoil in the US, epithets such as “paranoid,” “psychopath,” and “fascist” are bandied about as descriptions of the political actors within the […]
Democrats’ Defeats Were Long Foreseen
February 1, 2017 By Neil Cosgrove “Competition for political leadership is in part a competition between differing stories about a nation’s self-identity, and between differing symbols of its greatness.” Richard Rorty, Achieving […]
Breaking Down the Empathy Walls Between Us
By Scilla Wahrhaftig I, like many others, have been asking myself what went wrong? What could we have done to have prevented the catastrophe that Trump’s presidency is likely to bring […]
Election Night from the Perspective of a Queer Millennial
By Tallon Kennedy Wisconsin turns red. Wisconsin wasn’t even supposed to be in play tonight. Wisconsin was supposed to be a given for Hillary. Just drink more wine. Pennsylvania turns red, and […]
The Geography of Trump
By Neil Cosgrove One local, hard-to-miss feature of the weeks leading up to the November 8th election was the proliferation of Hillary Clinton lawn signs within the city of Pittsburgh, and the […]
Recipe for Regime Change
September 3, 2016 By Ron Read So it’s that time of year again, and you want to do something that will preserve U.S. dominance and corporate control of a faraway nation’s resources. […]
Roll to the Polls
September 1, 2016 By B-PEP “What do we do. WE vote! In Each and Every Election! We vote, we vote in Each and Every Election!” This is the rallying cry of the […]
O TEMPORA! O MORES! O VOTER SUPPRESSION!
September 1, 2016 By Robert Jedrzejewski “O TEMPORA ! O MORES ! (O the times and customs),” lamented Marcus Tullius Cicero, a Roman Consul in his oration against Catiline in 63.B.C. Lost […]
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