The opioid crisis in the US is a near perfect example why the current push for  unregulated free markets is mostly nonsense. That said the idea that full government regulations and control of markets is the answer is equally ludicrous.

When comparing notes with a neighbor I stated we are ordering more and more from Amazon. She on the other hand ordered from Walmart.

Recently Donald Trump stated, "Who knew healthcare could be so complicated." Democrats and most everyone else laughed and made fun of him. Healthcare for the US is actually not that complicated.

That the American electorate is fed up with business as usual is not in dispute.

I haven't bought products from Exxon knowingly in nearly 30 years except for a couple times for fear of running out of gas. My personal boycott of Exxon was proven correct when it was disclosed they were major funders of climate denial.

The idea of resistance to an authoritarian regime is long, proud, and ultimately successful.

Americans and the world should count their blessings that Donald Trump is the new President It could have been worse. A lot worse.

The media and the general public usually pay little attention to this climate event that occurs around mid March every year.

While discussing the poor potential of the incoming administration recently, a friend expressed hopes that they would shake things up.

America today is a very different country than in my youth. I attended a segregated high school. We had separate drinking fountains for blacks and whites at the Greyhound Bus station.

The approval rating of the US Congress hovers persistently between 5 and 15 %. It has been stuck there for as long as most anyone can remember. Yet the voters keep returning many of the same scoundrels to office term after term.

I am fighting a hacker on the site that handles my email. That reminds of this ridiculous Russian Hack allegation.

A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?” With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.”

The recent attention given to the Russian government propaganda as being a driving force behind the Clinton loss or circumventing American democracy is laughable at best and propaganda itself.

There has been much written since the election about what went wrong. The wrong was not so much electing Trump but, as Michael Moore put it, more like thrusting a giant middle finger into the face of the establishment.

Pete Seeger has been called many things in his decades long career but no one can dispute that he was the consummate American musician activist. In both his music and his activism Seeger was a purist. Much has been written about Pete Seeger's contribution to the important social causes...