Obama in Cuba: An historic opportunity
This is the greatest chance we have ever had to do right by the Cuban people. Let's get to work.
No boots on the ground in Syria!
The Syrian crisis is, in part, the product of wrong policies of destabilization and regime change that our country needs to abandon.
Tell Congress to support peace with Iran
Experts call its curbs on Iran's potential nuclear weapons development more complete than anything they had expected. But the pact is about much more than nuclear weapons.
Netanyahu, Boehner, and hypocrisy on Iran
It was a spectacle that had few if any parallels in the modern history of nations.
Time to save the children
Solutions are possible. Much will depend on whether the political will can be mustered. That will depend on mass struggle.
Ten bright spots for hope in 2014
Let's keep hope alive this holiday season and into the New Year with the hope and expectation that lasting victories are possible!
Twenty-five years later, the Cold War still blows hot
In Washington, hostility toward socialism and even socialist orientations remain the order of the day.
Wrong way on Iraq
President Obama, while saying U.S. airstrikes would be limited in scope, also called it "a long-term project" - that is alarming, opening the door for further disasters.
Supreme racism tramples democracy in voting rights
The 30-year project of the Republicans and ultra-conservatives to crush civil rights took a qualitative leap forward when the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a 5-4 decision announced on June 25.
Veterans need more than flags on Memorial Day
Eighteen veterans each day kill themselves; an average of 950 veterans each month attempt suicide, shouldn't this be considered a national emergency?
