To call attention to the many social and economic problems facing Appalachian Ohio and to protest the utter failure of the GOP-dominated government, especially at the federal level, to even meaningfully address, let alone sufficiently meet, the many dire needs of this distressed region, one Congressional candidate has started a protest fast on Ash...

Statement composed by Rev. Dr. Lange, signed on Jan. 24 by scores of clergy and laity representing Abrahamic faiths, and sent to the White House in February. There was no response.

"I am convinced that if we are to get on to the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values," prophetically declared Rev. Martin Luther King in NYC's Riverside Church exactly one year before his assassination. "When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more...

Military spending - when including past, present and preparations for future wars - constitutes the largest portion, by far, of the federal budget excluding Social Security (which is really a trust fund and has no business being part of the official federal budget). For fiscal 2018, the official US military budget is over $824 billion, a sum larger...