Many members of my extended family participated in demonstrations on Saturday, January 21 pledging resistance to the far right agenda of the Republican Congress and their leader, Donald Trump. We ...

Two men orphaned in a high-profile Cold War espionage case will appear outside the White House on Thursday to deliver a letter and packet of documents to President Barack Obama. Robert and Michael ...

[Between the time this was taped for delivery on March 24 and the writing of this longer version, the Republicans pulled their bill repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. The principles ...

In this article, Brooks lamented the fact that the US as a country is “decelerating, detaching, losing hope, getting sadder. Economic slowdown, social disaffection and risk aversion reinforce one ...

On April 10, 2020, Senator Bernie Sanders (I, Vermont) teamed up with Representative Pramila Jaypal (D. Washington) to introduce the Health Care Emergency Guarantee Act. The point of the bill is to ...

Early in the campaign for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, I stated that I believed Donald Trump was a fascist. Some people for whom I have a great deal of respect said that I was giving ...

Have you ever heard of the Economic Policy Institute? As their name indicates, they do research on economic policy. Their goal is to “…include the needs of low- and middle-income workers in economic ...

Back in 1993, the original proposal from the Clinton Administration on how to close the budget deficits that they had inherited upon taking office included a revenue raiser called a BTU tax --- a tax ...

I assume many listeners have seen the television footage of the angry mobs in places such as Murrieta, California and other places holding up signs urging the government to send back the immigrant ...

If you watch enough television, you will often see a doctor or nurse describing in agonizing detail the pressures they are under treating Coronavirus patients. I am in awe at their courage, their ...

A New York NPR-affiliate radio station recently published an article calling on protesters to engage in personal attacks, property damage and harassment against every single NRA board member, even if ...

I am sure virtually all listeners to this commentary are disgusted by Trump as he holds hundreds of thousands of federal workers hostage to his demand for $5 billion to build part of his ”wall” on the ...