It’s no wonder Americans are losing faith in our political system.. Citizens United lets big corporations spend unlimited amounts of money — in secret and without accountability — so politicians answer to them instead of voters. We’ve lost our way when corporations are people, money is free speech, and politicians are for sale to the […]

If we’re going to risk building a pipeline through America, it better benefit Americans. With Keystone, Big Oil gets the profits, foreign countries get the oil, and Americans get all the risks. A pipeline built through America to sell foreign oil to foreign countries risks disaster for American farmers and ranchers — just so Big […]

My friend and CNN iReporter Melissa Fazli of Yorba Linda, CA searched her heart and values and made the switch officially from an Independent to a Democrat. She has lived in the trenches of the mortgage crisis. She has lived the irresponsible behavior of the banking and realty businesses first hand. Melissa understands that it […]

  Brave New Foundation latest video exposes billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch for their distorted philanthropy at cash-strapped American colleges and universities. Through their family foundations and nonprofits, the Koch brothers are requiring Koch-friendly professors drill Ayn Rand’s ideology into students in exchange for the Kochs’ ideological "strings attached" donations. Watch our latest video, […]

It is about time that we rid ourselves of the codification of prejudice and hate. Those on the Right that fear the different inasmuch as their behavior against others is what should be feared will continue to be alienated from civilized society and that is good. Those of us on the left better be careful […]

Cynthia Nixon has a point when she says that one can choose to be gay. I have always known based on my friends that some were gay by choice and some were just predisposed to be gay likely because of their genetic makeup. The gay communities’ fear that the Right will use this to de-legitimize […]

This film should be a wake up call of those carrying water for corporations. For those who are supporting the GOP in their support for unfettered rights for corporations, you do it not only at your own peril but at the peril of free enterprise. These rights are fundamentally designed to kill the innovation of […]