Opinion

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How a Trump addict can beat withdrawal symptoms!

The shock was too much for me to handle: Donald Trump said he would begin to act "presidential."

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Trump and the Republican elite: Two sides of a single coin

Trump's toxic stew - demagogic, divisive, brutish, misanthropic, incendiary and violent - struck a nerve among a section of the electorate and frightened others.

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Clinton should release transcripts of her Wall St. speeches

All of Clinton's strong progressive positions on a host of issues could be subverted if the country remains on a Wall St.-backed policy that feeds the fires of war.

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Bernie or bust?

Catchy enough, but what does it mean: two very different interpretations came to my mind.

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Gun control alone can't curb violence

Dealing with entrenched poverty costs real money, but less than we spend on the police, jails, drugs, alcoholism, and chronic illness - the dysfunction that comes from poverty.

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Ted Cruz is Trump on steroids

Cruz's tax proposal would hit working families, retired persons on fixed incomes and the poor very hard.

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In Trump, the right wing has created a Frankenstein monster

Trump's fantasy plan is not only counter to everything America stands for, it would be impossible to carry out and does not address the circumstances that lead to tragedy.

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Is nation's gain Wisconsin's loss?

It was Scott Walker himself whose continued bragging about how he had taken away the rights of workers in his home state that actually did him in.