Voices for Change

Defend our teachers. Pay our teachers. Value our teachers. The work they do determines our future. 

Prison strike leaders see through the political theater and illusions that the corporate elites employ to mask Americans’ surrender of freedom.

The momentum for education savings accounts is increasing across the country, and public education advocates say they will endanger neighborhood schools.

How this conflict of economic and political systems turns out depends on whether China can confront its contradictions.

The U.S. beef industry is destroying the American Wild West and worsening the climate crisis.

It's hard for a nation to build work skills when its corporations have largely stopped paying for education. Both federal and state corporate tax avoidance is at a stunning rate. This is millions of dollars that isn't going to state taxes, which fund public education.

I conclude Trump took himself out of the race because he was and is in self-destruction mode.

As the first hearing approaches, Israeli officials have doubled down on explicit statements of genocidal intent behind the massacre in Gaza, while U.S. efforts to insulate itself from them remain unconvincing.

In severity of health damage, media staying power, and political indefensibility, the Flint, MI lead poisoning looms as a national turning point. What disgrace better spotlights Republican government poisoning one hundred thousand of its own people -- failed austerity at its worst? Rarely does stupid and wasteful, if not immoral, merge so dramatically.